Frankweiler Quotes

#1. After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

E.L. Konigsburg

#2. Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that.
Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make

E.L. Konigsburg

#3. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

Timothy Leary

#4. No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one ...

Marianne Williamson

#5. I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

Brownie McGhee

#6. What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

Plato

#7. A warrior always, you lift a hand to create or destroy as you will, and heed no one's call but your own. And all the while, my one breathless thought, repeating as though I know nothing else ... Take me with you.

Donya Petrock

#8. Life is divided up into phases. Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able to recognise what is expected of you in each phase. That's the secret of successful living

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Richard J. Foster

#10. God is great!
That shout from the mosque seems like
a grand lamentation. Five times a day
the earth seems to groan against
its indifferent creator!

Omar Khayyam

#11. Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.

Agatha Christie

#12. Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Joanne Harris

#13. He squeezes my hand. "I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you, cupcake," he says. "I just wish you could love me back.

Tammy Falkner

#14. The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

Dan Chaon