Schmoker Books Quotes

#1. Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Mike Schmoker

#3. I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Gaby Hoffmann

#4. The problem is, March snow days are miracles. You can't live for miracles.

Jasmine Warga

#5. She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.
'You're being very silent.'
'That's how men cry.

John Fowles

#6. These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.

Mike Schmoker

#7. and no, no, I didn't think it was a coincidence SS was short for sorority sister.

Nicole Williams

#8. Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow.

Sylvia Plath