Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee Quotes

#1. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

Saul Leiter

#2. Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.

Theodore Beale

#3. Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

Kate Klise

#4. Pound my ass, Joe, like a good gay hick.

Anonymous

#5. I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

Kathryn Lasky

#6. If you fail, never give up.
Keep trying, you will succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. I quickly learned that as the ex-whatever, you only get so many golden opportunities to keep your mouth shut, and you should take advantage of every single one.

Chris Hadfield

#9. God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

Rick Warren

#10. Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#11. Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel - and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#12. So ye've come back to him," he said happily. "God, that's romantic!

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Some people call it self-confidence, I call it ambivalence to failure.

L.M. Long

#14. Colin stared at the officer. Thorne, you scare me. I'm not ashamed to say it.

Tessa Dare

#15. Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.

James C. Dobson