Mixed Up Files 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. I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors.

John Turturro

#3. The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

H. P. Blavatsky

#4. (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Harold Macmillan

#5. Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

Janet Evanovich

#6. In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Virtue alone is happiness; all else
Is else, and without praise.

Thiruvalluvar

#8. A kid is what you feed it,
plus from that what can be gathered.

Will Advise

#9. There will be no shortage of iron-ore, even in 2020, when Indian steel production is projected to rise to 100-million tons a year.

Dinsha Patel