Eleanor H Porter Pollyanna Quotes

#1. When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Laurie Helgoe

#2. The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly.

Lionel Suggs

#3. I don't know who came up with this idea that it's cool to hate on other girls, 'cause it's not.

Lilly Singh

#4. Oh, yes, nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

Eleanor Porter

#5. He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.

John Crowley

#6. My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Eleanor Porter

#7. Pollyanna now, like Mrs. Snow, was knitting wonderful things out of bright colored worsteds that trailed their cheery lengths across the white spread, and made Pollyanna -- like Mrs. Snow -- so glad she had her hands and arms, anyway.

Eleanor H. Porter

#8. Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about - no matter what 'twas

Eleanor Porter

#9. My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Sue Grafton

#10. When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.

Lennox Lewis

#11. Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

Shia Labeouf

#12. The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all - to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.

Eleanor H. Porter

#13. Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Eleanor Porter

#14. Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.

Claire Denis

#15. It takes an extrovert to bring out my upbeat side. If it were up to me, everyone would probably just sit around talking about mysteries of the universe.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#16. Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.

Ruslana Korshunova

#17. I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue.

Hafsah Faizal

#18. I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and
impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Porter