Top 100 Quotes About Applegate
#1. I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
Pete Wentz
#3. You are the One and Only Ivan," he calls.
I nod, then turn toward my family, my life, my home.
"Mighty Silverback," I whisper.
Katherine Applegate
#4. I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
Christina Applegate
#5. Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mud slides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache.
Katherine Applegate
#6. There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
Christina Applegate
#8. I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.
Katherine Applegate
#9. He's not the only one who's got people to worry about," Rachel said. "I have a family. We
all do."
"Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled his sad, crooked smile. "It's true. No one gives a rat's
rear about me."
"I do," Rachel said.
K.A. Applegate
#10. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him.
Katherine Applegate
#11. Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.
Christina Applegate
#13. Everyone in my life thinks I'm competitive because I want to win, but it comes from me wanting everyone to have a good time. And when I see that people aren't enthused, I try to make it really uncomfortable for everyone so they get enthused and want to play hard.
Christina Applegate
#14. When you don't want to be somewhere and there is no way to get your body out of the situation, your brain sometimes packs a bag and thumbs a ride anywhere it can go.
Anne Applegate
#15. I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
Christina Applegate
#17. (Are you okay?) Tobias asked.
I raised my hand to look at it. Fingers. Five of them.
"I don't know? Am I okay?
Katherine Applegate
#18. I remember something my mama
used to say on dark days:
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.
Ganwar, I whisper,
what if she never comes?
Katherine Applegate
#19. I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.
Christina Applegate
#21. Maybe dreams aren't in your head. Maybe dreams are memories of another universe.
Katherine Applegate
#22. Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.
Katherine Applegate
#23. am talking to my imaginary friend. I invented him when I was seven. He is here in our bathtub. He has a bubble beard.
Katherine Applegate
#24. Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.
Katherine Applegate
#26. Well, I'm guessing hat in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, I'm going to have a sandwich."
-Animorphs #5, The Predator page 34
K.A. Applegate
#27. For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing.
Katherine Applegate
#28. I think that's his point," April said. "Not dumb, maybe. Just naive. I mean we come from a cynical age. Suspicious of everything. Maybe thats the advantage we have."
"Yeah our bad attitudes versus their swords and axes and giant wolves," Christopher said darkly.
Katherine Applegate
#30. Oh, it's just a trash can. Chill out." (Marco) BAM! BAM! BAM! "Okay, so it's four trash cans," (Marco) " BAM! BAM! BAM! "Do you hate trash cans? Is that your problem? Do you just HATE TRASH CANS?!!" (Jake)
Katherine Applegate
#33. Thought is creative. Be mindful of where your attention is, because the universe doesn't know the difference. It only knows where your focus is. Life will surely manifest where you put that attention.
Christina Applegate
#34. What's that?" Seth asked, pointing.
"That?"
"That room. Isn't that a head?"
"Uh, that's, uh, out of order."
"What's wrong with it? Maybe I can fix it later."
Never tell a former handyman anything is broken. Never, ever, ever.
Katherine Applegate
#35. I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K.A. Applegate
#36. One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
K.A. Applegate
#37. So, you propel rocks at me! You'll be very sorry you ever propelled a rock at me, human.
Katherine Applegate
#38. They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth. Rachel
Katherine Applegate
#39. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#41. I have been in my domain for nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-five days. Alone. For
Katherine Applegate
#42. She seemed beautiful to me. Is that strange? I suppose it is. But there is a compelling beauty in the sight of someone seemingly so small and yet so dangerous.
Katherine Applegate
#44. Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.
Katherine Applegate
#45. Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'
Christina Applegate
#47. In dreams you lose normal cause and effect. You jump around in time. This is reality. Jalil
Katherine Applegate
#49. And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.
Katherine Applegate
#52. I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
K.A. Applegate
#54. What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
K.A. Applegate
#55. It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
K.A. Applegate
#56. There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.
Christina Applegate
#57. Christopher flushed, gaped, and then laughed. I gave him credit for that. Lots of guys can laugh at someone else. Chistopher could laugh at himself. You see a lot less of that.
Katherine Applegate
#58. Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.
Katherine Applegate
#59. He brought the Glock up to shoulder height. He had one up the snout giving him fourteen rounds of influence.
Norm Applegate
#60. We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
K.A. Applegate
#61. You think ancient soul-eating demons are terrifying? Try a run-in with Renn's crazy ex-girlfriend if you want a real scare." (July Henry)
Megan Applegate
#62. Jake assumed that he would be the one to die. Marco had seen this instantly. He wasn't arguing in favor of the awful future we'd seen. He was arguing for the life of his best friend.
K.A. Applegate
#63. Tobias said.
I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight.
K.A. Applegate
#65. remember when my little sister first came home. But I don't remember trying to put her in a box so we could mail her back to the hospital. My
Katherine Applegate
#66. You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.
Katherine Applegate
#67. Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.
Katherine Applegate
#68. Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.
Katherine Applegate
#69. When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
K.A. Applegate
#71. The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.
Sheila Applegate
#72. I just want to get on a table, dance on someone's tater tots, and wait for the hall monitor to drag me away
Katherine Applegate
#73. I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show ... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
K.A. Applegate
#74. My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange?
Katherine Applegate
#75. If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.
Christina Applegate
#76. I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
Katherine Applegate
#77. Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?
Katherine Applegate
#78. I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
K.A. Applegate
#79. Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?
Katherine Applegate
#80. I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it's all dark moving water again.
Katherine Applegate
#81. I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.
Christina Applegate
#82. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
Katherine Applegate
#83. Humans have very odd tastes. They think their music is beautiful. They are wrong. It is awful. All of it. And they completely ignore their greatest accomplishments: the cinnamon bun, the Snickers bar, the hot pepper, and the refreshing beverage called vinegar.
Katherine Applegate
#84. One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K.A. Applegate
#86. But even I have enough sense to know the words "we have to win" are the first four steps on the road to hell.
Katherine Applegate
#87. The only person she knew at all was Marquez, and Marquez seemed to have been possessed by the music.
Katherine Applegate
#88. I was an Andalite, all alone, far, far from home. Far from my own people. Except that sometimes your own people are not just the ones who look like you. Sometimes the people who are your own can be very different from you.
Katherine Applegate
#90. How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.
Christina Applegate
#91. Don't worry dreams aren't real. They're just neurons firing randomly in your brain.
Katherine Applegate
#92. I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
Christina Applegate
#93. A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.
Katherine Applegate
#94. I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.
Christina Applegate
#95. It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.
Christina Applegate
#97. I felt the way you do the instant before you leap into the deep end of a pool. You're on your way to somewhere else. You're not there yet. But you know there's no turning back.
Katherine Applegate
#98. Jake? Do me a favor. Don't ever say 'so far, so good'. The only time anyone ever says 'so far, so good' is right before everything blows up in his face!-Marco
Katherine Applegate
#99. I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
K.A. Applegate
#100. Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
K.A. Applegate
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