Quotes About Gathering Blue

#1. The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

Adelina Sotnikova

#2. I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them.

Roy Keane

#3. Then Frank and Percy burst into the open and began to massacre every source of fiber they could find.

Rick Riordan

#4. Just remember this: college is the most expensive place to be confused in the whole entire world.

Brittany Gibbons

#5. What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Giorgio Morandi

#6. I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

Marguerite Young

#7. He wanted to wear sweatpants, because "they tear easier." I asked him if he wanted me to get him some male stripper jeans so he could avoid looking like a Russian gangster from pre-Shift movies, after which he got all offended and put on a pair of regular jeans instead.

Ilona Andrews

#8. River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy,
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home,
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

Robert Hunter

#9. Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

William Shakespeare

#10. When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

Felix Dennis

#11. I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

Hillary Clinton

#12. When you see chaos around you, try looking wider, maybe is part of something very well arranged!

Me

#13. If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

Carolyn Chute

#14. It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

Emily Blunt

#15. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

#16. You will fail. Then they will kill you. - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

Lois Lowry