Top 24 Messinger Quotes
#1. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.
Jonathan Messinger
#2. The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
Jonathan Messinger
#3. Enjoy it well. Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all. Hail and be glad.
C.S. Lewis
#4. Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world
Ruth Messinger
#5. She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career.
Meryl Streep
#6. When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.
Guy Spier
#7. Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
Jonathan Messinger
#8. The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention
Ruth Messinger
#9. It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.
Ruth Messinger
#10. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.
Jonathan Messinger
#11. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.
Jonathan Messinger
#12. How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.
Jonathan Messinger
#13. I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.
Jonathan Messinger
#16. a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men
Charles Stross
#17. You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer.
Lisa See
#18. Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.
Ruth Messinger
#19. The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.
James Plath
#20. The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things
Malcolm Gladwell
#21. People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]
Mo Willems
#22. Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
Jean Little
#24. ...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.
Delfi Messinger
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top