Mosquitoland Quotes

#1. Yes, Mom but how does the music get from that needle" - I pointed my chubby little finger to the record player -"to my heart." My earliest memories of music had nothing to do with listening, and everything in the world to do with feeling. - Mim, Mosquitoland

David Arnold

#2. David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.

Ruta Sepetys

#3. In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

Ernest Gaines

#4. I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Gerhard Richter

#5. When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

Kaley Cuoco

#6. In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Margaret Halsey

#7. I'm a Picasso, not a Vermeer

David Arnold

#8. I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

Lindsey Vonn

#9. If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Irving Babbitt

#10. I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.

David Arnold