Mrs Basil E Frankweiler 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. The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.

David Eddings

#3. Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#4. The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Georges Bataille

#5. Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

Aldo Leopold

#6. I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

David Banner

#7. It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

Johnny Depp

#8. There is no depth to education without art.

Amiri Baraka

#9. Nobody falls halfway

Colum McCann

#10. I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

Princess Diana

#11. I never thought that I was very intelligent.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon

Barack Obama