Top 25 Vivian Vande Velde Quotes

#1. Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

Walt Disney Company

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#2. There, close enough to spit on
if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit
was the dragon.

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#3. Giannine
What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

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#4. People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

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#5. Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

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#6. If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.

Bernard Jensen

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#7. I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

Dick Van Dyke

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#8. If Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

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#9. That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this ... why? Because you're fond of helping others?"
"I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.

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#10. Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

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#11. And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

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#12. Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Margaret Mahy

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#13. Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens.
Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.
Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.

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#14. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Ingeborg Bachmann

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#15. They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

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#16. The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

Molly Antopol

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#17. Don't, she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

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#18. Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things ... In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.

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#19. The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

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#20. Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

A.R. Ammons

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#21. If you don't like vampire games, don't play

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#22. Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

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#23. People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

Dick Wolf

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#24. Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

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#25. A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

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