Dagoberto Quotes

#1. He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

David Coleman

#2. You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.

Christian Lander

#3. My favorite ethnic group is smart.

Dagoberto Gilb

#4. Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

#5. The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.

Seymour Papert

#6. Did you remember my tennis-themed Halloween party this weekend?
Yes. Not really, no. Where is it again?
My house. Well, my dad's house. Should I feel bad for hosting it while he's out of town?
Not when he still owes you for a lifetime of disappointment.

Jay Clark

#7. Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

#8. He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white.
He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.

Megan Whalen Turner

#9. GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM YOU VILE LITTLE GIRL! AND TAKE THAT DISGUSTING CREATURE WITH YOU!" snarled the teacher.

David Walliams

#10. I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Jill Eikenberry

#11. You don't deserve to see daisies wither.

Changdictator

#12. Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Stephen Covey

#13. My father became a mythical figure, more force than man ... he was a force my mother would use as a threat of wrath and punishment." In "Father Close, Father Far" New California Writing

Dagoberto Gilb

#14. Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end ...

Kate DiCamillo

#15. This morning I heard: the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly, it was intimate, private, longing. The words, quiet and simple as they were, were strong, deep tosses that landed close, and loud.

Dagoberto Gilb

#16. The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

Jon Landau

#17. People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

Robert Wyatt