Top 29 Joan Aiken Quotes

#1. He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

Henry Rollins

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#2. Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

Billie Jean King

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#3. The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

Joan Aiken

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#4. Eat an apple,sing a song,
Don't touch a snake as it wriggles along.
Run for an hour, walk for a day,
Hark to the birds and heed what they say.

Joan Aiken

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#5. Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Patty Murray

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#6. Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.
("Hair")

Joan Aiken

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#7. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

Joan Aiken

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#8. Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Joan Aiken

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#9. But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

Joan Aiken

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#10. You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

John Piper

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#11. As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Joan Aiken

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#12. Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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#13. Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Joan Aiken

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#14. Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.

Joan Aiken

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#15. No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

Joan Aiken

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#16. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.

Garth Nix

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#17. A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

Joan Aiken

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#18. Question is the Champion of Quest

Vineet Raj Kapoor

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#19. Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And

Jo Walton

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#20. Merry... you look awful. - Vivia

Susan Dennard

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#21. The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Joan Aiken

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#22. Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

Joan Aiken

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#23. World's full of things to lose yourself in. Don't mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards.

Peter V. Brett

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#24. This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Jose Marti

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#25. Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#26. Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Joan Aiken

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#27. Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

John Abizaid

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#28. If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

Mencius

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#29. I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

Venus Williams

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