K. A. Applegate quote: "I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer."

I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. O...
K. A. APPLEGATE

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity t...
K. A. APPLEGATE

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so ma...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it m...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnera...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentl...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
K. A. APPLEGATE

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
K. A. APPLEGATE

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine l...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi...
K. A. APPLEGATE

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. ...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the sympho...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin roma...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawin...
K. A. APPLEGATE

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is...
K. A. APPLEGATE

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and...
K. A. APPLEGATE

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. APPLEGATE

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When anim...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and fou...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was se...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet ...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally...
K. A. PAUL

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it th...
K. A. PAUL

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran bur...
K. A. PAUL

I don't do office work at home.
A. K. ANTONY

All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. ANTONY

There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
A. K. ANTONY

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
A. K. ANTONY

You know why i'm funny? because i have money.
A. K. MOMANI

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have ...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love th...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sor...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

If our outlook is correct, very rich valuations for the best tech stocks will persist, ... Maybe for...
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

That does not make us, or our clients, very happy.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

Fiscal policy is still too tight for current circumstances.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't reali...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

Vibrations.
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

These days, dates mean a dinner and movie-falling back on the old standards. I think that's just so ...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend ...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot.
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

Last year was the first time I actually participated in Halloween. I dressed up as a pimp, and my si...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completel...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

There's something for everybody at Picnic Day.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't. But it poses no harm, either.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Cats need it; we don't.
LIZ APPLEGATE

These cans of energy drinks have some enticing, very sexy-sounding claims -- that they lift you up, ...
LIZ APPLEGATE

Fat and fitness can go together, ... It depends on other factors.
LIZ APPLEGATE

Any trainer or physician that deals with football players, and in particular offensive linemen and t...
LIZ APPLEGATE

It's not very exotic. It's straightforward, logical thinking. But people get stymied. I don't think ...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

It's not very exotic, ... It's straightforward, logical thinking. But people get stymied. I don't th...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

Most definitely you should put money in a 401(k) as well as an IRA if you can afford to do it, ... T...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

It's double taxation and fairly dumb. In my opinion it doesn't make a lot of sense to consider the n...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

That money comes out with no taxes at all. That's truly amazing.
RICHARD APPLEGATE

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as ...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

Wrong, wrong, wrong, stupid. Taking the money out is absolutely the worst thing to do. You see peopl...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

Delaying is really costly. If you don't have time on your side, you don't have compounding.
RICHARD APPLEGATE

I can't tell you how many times people will tell me they're not signing up. I don't know if they get...
RICHARD APPLEGATE

Bottom line, it comes down to shopping.
RICK APPLEGATE

It's far better to get the financial advice.
RICK APPLEGATE

If your fund changes managers, that's a red flag to pull your money.
RICK APPLEGATE

much more comes out on how common the practice was.
RICK APPLEGATE

All this fury about what is going on in the funds has created a bit of a mob mentality. People have ...
RICK APPLEGATE

It's much ado about nothing in some respects,
RICK APPLEGATE

You can hold it till your purple, and you're not going to get back to the top of the bubble.
RICK APPLEGATE

Ruiz and his gang continued to commit crimes over and over again while out on bail. It is apparent t...
RICK APPLEGATE

[Certified financial planners who reviewed Cummings' portfolio applauded her savings efforts.] She i...
RICK APPLEGATE

Ruiz was our No. 1 guy, our top priority for property crimes investigators.
RICK APPLEGATE

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped ...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

David, when it happens... when it happens, David, will you save me?
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

You know a guy is funny when a week later you can still feel the little knives he stuck in you.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE

Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

When she gets back, I'll tell her how much she really did help with this project. I really hope she ...
DEAN APPLEGATE

I think its great. I still would love to have [Grandma] back here. But I feel like I helped out my g...
DEAN APPLEGATE

I thought we could help a little.
DEAN APPLEGATE

Different languages, different food, different customs. That's our neighborhood: wild and tangled an...
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

I mean, I love Barnes and Noble, I spend a lot of time at Barnes and Noble, but they do not have boo...
K.A. APPLEGATE

State fish and wildlife agencies are pretty much funding themselves. They do a tremendous job on a s...
JODI APPLEGATE

If CARA doesn't happen this year we will be looking for ways to make the legislative package work do...
JODI APPLEGATE

The appropriations bill would provide a little over a quarter of the funding that was promised. Our ...
JODI APPLEGATE

The names are mine, but they're not me.
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco
KATHERINE APPLEGATE

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just ...
A. H. K. BOYD

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survi...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY)

You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY)

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY)

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY

Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY

It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

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