Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech Quotes

#1. Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

Ryan Kavanaugh

#2. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Zig Ziglar

#3. Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Jennifer Donnelly

#4. And that was the one place I swore I'd never be again.
To love was to hurt.

Karina Halle

#5. I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

Lisa Marie Presley

#6. Being autistic doesn't make me any less human. It just makes me who I am. Just like you are.

Tina J. Richardson

#7. I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

John Fogerty

#8. It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

#10. God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. There's nothing as weak and soft as water, yet it will eat away the hardest stone.

Nicholas C. Rossis

#12. When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Zeena Schreck

#13. I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

Demetri Martin

#14. Idiot woman seems to think she can wean herself off love,

Kellyn Roth

#15. An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Lloyd C. Douglas