The Young And Prodigious T S Spivet Quotes

#1. They didn't have to be funny - they were father jokes.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Never repeat old grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I don't get bitter, I just get better.

Drake

#4. Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You
were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to
me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural
references were the sign of a colonized mind.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Charles M. Schwab

#6. Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Ben Stein

#7. I'm a perpetrator!

Noah Homes

#8. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.

Jack Kerouac

#9. Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.

Stephan Jenkins