Gooney Bird Quotes

#1. I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

Jimmy Piersall

#2. The class stared at the new girl with admiration. They had never met anyone like Gooney Bird Greene. She was a good student. She sat down at the desk Mrs. Pidgeon provided, right smack in the middle of everything, and began doing second grade spelling.

Lois Lowry

#3. You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

Caitlin Fitzgerald

#4. In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

Maggie Gallagher

#5. Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Marguerite Young

#6. My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect ...

Walter Russell

#7. If you emit positive energy, even people who don't like you will not be negative when around you.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#8. Papa!" she whispered. "I have no eyes!"
He patted the girl's hair. She'd fallen into his trap. "With a smile like that," Hans Hubermann said, "you don't need eyes.

Markus Zusak

#9. This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.

N.K. Jemisin

#10. I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

Elmore Leonard

#11. I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

Dolly Parton