Paul Zindel Quotes

#1. And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.

Paul Zindel

#2. In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful ...

Paul Zindel

#3. Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.

David Harewood

#4. If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.

Paul Zindel

#5. Our life would be what we made of it
nothing more, nothing less.

Paul Zindel

#6. I've learned that by doing things, things get done

Ray Bradbury

#7. Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Charles Hart

#8. Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger.

Paul Zindel

#9. They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

Paul Zindel

#10. The challenge is to write about real things magically.

Raymond Chandler

#11. Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?

Paul Zindel

#12. Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

Ildar Abdrazakov

#13. He was practically pushing the hot dogs down his throat.

Paul Zindel

#14. The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts.

Belsebuub

#15. The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin.

Paul Zindel

#16. Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

Paul Zindel

#17. There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.

Paul Zindel

#18. For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything.

Paul Zindel

#19. You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.

Paul Zindel

#20. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

Bret Easton Ellis

#21. We must share! Sharing IS caring. Share everything: every idea, every resource, every story, every gift, every worry and every burden. Share yourself.

Bryant McGill

#22. I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

Iris Apfel

#23. People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

John Barrow

#24. This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident
like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation, right?

Paul Zindel

#25. I suppose we could use some rain," and the Colonel looked up at the low clouds coming in fast and threatening, and then he said, "Well, use it or not, we're sure as shit going to get some." And we sure as shit did.

John Green

#26. I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

Paul Zindel

#27. When are you getting married?'
'After graduation, stupid.

Paul Zindel

#28. But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it
like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve.
(Sean)

Paul Zindel

#29. I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times.

Paul Zindel

#30. It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Paul Zindel

#31. If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

Albert Camus

#32. I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.

Paul Zindel

#33. Watch the little things in life, the ones you have control over. Keep your eyes glued to the peas and every speck of dust on the floor.

Paul Zindel