Quotes About Calpurnia

#1. That doesn't mean you hafta talk that way when you know better, said Jem. Calpurnia

Harper Lee

#2. And so they went, down the row of laughing women, around the diningroom, refilling coffee cups, dishing out goodies as though their only regret was the temporary domestic disaster of losing Calpurnia.

Harper Lee

#3. She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one but a helplessly romantic mother with an unhealthy obsession with Shakespeare would have considered saddling a child.

Sarah MacLean

#4. If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.

Sarah MacLean

#5. There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into, murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard. We

Harper Lee

#6. We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade." Calpurnia

Harper Lee

#7. An old campaigner, he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk. "What's up?" "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.

Harper Lee

#8. I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me.

Harper Lee

#9. My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

Katy Mixon

#10. God has a plan for everyone he created and none of his creations is meant to be purposeless. Every human being for that matter was brought forth with a specific and unique duty to uptake while he lives on earth.

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut? ... You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.

Kate Quinn

#12. Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is ... My process is a bit messier.

Erin Morgenstern

#13. Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Don DeLillo

#14. Disloyal people, you don't know when they gona hit you with grave surprises and betrayals...

Assegid Habtewold

#15. Ou just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

Abbie Hoffman

#16. Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.

Harper Lee

#17. If I must choose, I'd rather be tuned in than 'turnt up'.

T.F. Hodge

#18. Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Jacqueline Kelly

#19. God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

Stephen Levine

#20. When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you ... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Edward Albee

#21. The world is a mirror in which everyone sees himself reflected

Neville Goddard

#22. Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

William Shakespeare