Beezus Quotes

#1. Wealth in activity
capital with all its friction
is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. The Whole World Knows By Now ... That Tibet is Burning. Even If We All Turn Our Eyes Blind To It ... The Fact Still Remains The Same ... That Tibet Is Being Destroyed! Humanity In Unity, Must Now Step Up To The Plate And SAVE Tibet!

Timothy Pina

#3. Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

Beverly Cleary

#4. Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Jennifer McMahon

#5. I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.

Yvon Chouinard

#6. The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

Don Hertzfeldt

#7. If I'd been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I'd merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

Jim Goad

#8. That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.
And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

Jacqueline Carey

#9. Every step I took hurt, I walked on daggers, on hot blue fire. Not holding him was like not breathing, not being quite alive. As

Alice Hoffman

#10. Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.

Nehemiah Adams

#11. Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Beverly Cleary

#13. There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

David Baldacci

#14. I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.

Kurt Warner