Akeelah Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Keke Palmer

#2. When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

Keke Palmer

#3. I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

Ray Winstone

#4. When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good ... nothing is too difficult for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing

John Cage

#6. For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent.

Adam Nicolson

#7. Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

Karl Kraus

#8. There is no upward limit to the number of times you can make the same mistake.

Brian McGreevy

#9. In my last year at Hallmark, we finally began putting verses on computer. It had been all in filing cabinets on index cards. They had to assign a 4 digit serial number to each sentiment, for each area of feeling.

Pat Cadigan

#10. In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Randall Jarrell

#11. Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done;
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet,
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat;
Rank grass over head, and damp clay around,
Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground!

Charles Dickens

#12. Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.

Emma Hart

#13. We have to defend America and be strong.

Kevin McCarthy

#14. You remind me of everything that followed.

Jhumpa Lahiri