Jarrett J. Krosoczka quote: "On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since."

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandp...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for ...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother w...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, wheth...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. Fr...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ...
VALERIE JARRETT

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expe...
VALERIE JARRETT

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face...
VALERIE JARRETT

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, makin...
VALERIE JARRETT

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currentl...
VALERIE JARRETT

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
VALERIE JARRETT

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that...
VALERIE JARRETT

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
VALERIE JARRETT

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that commo...
VALERIE JARRETT

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried...
VALERIE JARRETT

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead ...
VALERIE JARRETT

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlin...
VALERIE JARRETT

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally...
VALERIE JARRETT

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
VALERIE JARRETT

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could...
VALERIE JARRETT

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
VALERIE JARRETT

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepare...
VALERIE JARRETT

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also kn...
VALERIE JARRETT

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be ...
VALERIE JARRETT

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to r...
VALERIE JARRETT

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us mee...
VALERIE JARRETT

A new era of responsibility is here.
VALERIE JARRETT

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the...
VALERIE JARRETT

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the be...
VALERIE JARRETT

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
BEDE JARRETT

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of ...
VALERIE JARRETT

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.
BEDE JARRETT

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - Th...
BEDE JARRETT

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can ...
VALERIE JARRETT

The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
VALERIE JARRETT

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it. Jazz is there and g...
KEITH JARRETT

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exa...
KEITH JARRETT

If Dale could see what has happened, he would have a huge smile on his face. Even though there's nob...
DALE JARRETT

I don't know how he's blaming me. Jeff came up. He's got to know that someone else is there, too.
DALE JARRETT

It accelerated everything a hundred-fold. There are things that we have put into place today that we...
DALE JARRETT

I think things went really well. It has a very nice look to it and performed well.
DALE JARRETT

I think we've recovered. It will never be the same because, again, you're not gonna replace someone ...
DALE JARRETT

We wanted to test the Busch Series car and make sure we were in good shape for that especially since...
DALE JARRETT

No, I'm fine with everything.
DALE JARRETT

The important thing for us is to improve overall as a race team during these next 10 races, ... We'r...
DALE JARRETT

I think so. A lot of things have happened since the past. I came back in 2003 with Elliott and we ha...
DALE JARRETT

Hopefully, in these next nine races we can see some good things that are going to happen for the ent...
DALE JARRETT

It wasn't our night,
DALE JARRETT

As the race goes on, the track changes a lot and you'll find yourself changing the racing groove in ...
DALE JARRETT

California is one of the tracks where we ran decent this year. We're taking a new car with us this w...
DALE JARRETT

After the sun sets, there's no more problem.
DALE JARRETT

We feel like we've made some gains because we know that the competition has stepped up. It's incredi...
DALE JARRETT

I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the...
DALE JARRETT

You can't lie about anything. Everything here is captured on film and tape.
DALE JARRETT

We have a lot of work to do. We just can't find anything that helps these cars in the front. Elliott...
DALE JARRETT

I think Goodyear found what they wanted.
DALE JARRETT

Dale's death accelerated a lot of the safety provisions we have today. Anytime you see your Superman...
DALE JARRETT

I'm not saying that $10,000 isn't a lot of money, but I think Jeff can probably handle that OK. He p...
DALE JARRETT

You can make life a little more difficult for somebody here than other places. If you keep them behi...
DALE JARRETT

It's definitely having an impact. I don't know that you can say yet that it is good or bad.
DALE JARRETT

[Etc.: Jarrett, who has led only two laps this season, has finished 14th or worse in his last eight ...
DALE JARRETT

I think we're coming out and throwing the first punch instead of waiting back and seeing what our op...
JARRETT JACK

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.
KEITH JARRETT

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
KEITH JARRETT

The first couple times we raced there it was pretty tough, because it was a one-groove track. It's o...
DALE JARRETT

They don't pass inspection, they're allowed to sit there and jump up and down on their cars and what...
DALE JARRETT

I think Dale would at least be pleased from that to know that we moved forward in that. He and I had...
DALE JARRETT

should award points for pole positions.
DALE JARRETT

We like it because it makes us push and work harder every day just to stay on top. Being No. 1 is ju...
DWAYNE JARRETT

I don't like talking about football, I change the subject. Everybody was asking about it. I love the...
DWAYNE JARRETT

I knew if I didn't get hit, I could sneak my foot in,
DWAYNE JARRETT

But he has nothing else to prove in college football. And I know he is going to do well up there (in...
DWAYNE JARRETT

When he got the ball, he ran to his right, spinning off two defenders. At the same time he was spinn...
DWAYNE JARRETT

It's like we're in Seattle or something.
DWAYNE JARRETT

It was actually a play just to get a first down. The play was originally for Steve, and Matt checked...
DWAYNE JARRETT

He was the only one talking in the huddle.
DWAYNE JARRETT

There was a lot of pressure. I was a big recruit. I just took it day by day.
DWAYNE JARRETT

But he has nothing else to prove in college football. And I know he is going to do well up there.
DWAYNE JARRETT

I'm pretty sure that helped a little bit.
DWAYNE JARRETT

It's 15 minutes away so it's like a home game for us.
DWAYNE JARRETT

When I came back from the East Coast from Christmas break, it wasn't like I didn't want to come back...
DWAYNE JARRETT

John David's had a lot of experience along the way. He was the man all spring, when Matt was out. He...
DWAYNE JARRETT

I've never seen him in a foul mood.
DWAYNE JARRETT

I wasn't a lap down and, as we've seen, a lot of these races end under 'green-white-checkered,' and ...
DALE JARRETT

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas...
KEITH JARRETT

If you're going to continue to do that, eventually you're going to wreck. Ultimately we know our job...
DALE JARRETT

There's no way that you're going to be able to tell with the naked eye. And there's no way of knowin...
DALE JARRETT

It's incredible what has taken place. I think that's why we see so many competitive teams now, becau...
DALE JARRETT

He rides a bicycle and wears slippers around campus.
DWAYNE JARRETT

Well, the mile-and-a-half tracks were the bread and butter of our team and organization (Robert Yate...
DALE JARRETT

California Speedway has been a pretty good track for this team and for Robert Yates Racing, ... It's...
DALE JARRETT

We made it happen,
DWAYNE JARRETT

I think that just shows how skilled you can be at times when you can catch it with one hand.
DWAYNE JARRETT

He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT

It's always good to be on top, but at the same time we're focused and coach Carroll always reminds u...
DWAYNE JARRETT

I don't think I'm alone in saying that Michigan is my favorite track,
DALE JARRETT

He was the man in charge. In charge of everything.
DALE JARRETT

I don't know how [Green] is blaming me because I was on the bumper of the car in front of me and jus...
DALE JARRETT

I'm not sure that person exists. I don't know that you're going to have that whole package in one pe...
DALE JARRETT

I think that everybody in the garage area has a lot of respect for Jeff and I think that's because o...
DALE JARRETT

I've watched him race a long time and I don't mean him any disrespect, but if he comes here to race,...
DALE JARRETT

A good run in the Bud Shootout doesn't guarantee a good run in the Daytona 500, but it is a nice ind...
DALE JARRETT

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season ...
DALE JARRETT

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season with...
DALE JARRETT

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
KEITH JARRETT

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. ...
KEITH JARRETT

These other guys want to win just as badly as Todd does. For sure, we are going to miss him, but the...
DAVE JARRETT

You feel a little bit behind the eight ball when you start that far back. You don't want to be there...
DAVE JARRETT

It's just one jump, so anything can happen. If we can come out and jump like I know we can, then thi...
DAVE JARRETT

We've sorted all that out. It isn't that what Todd said wasn't true, but it was unfortunate how it c...
DAVE JARRETT

The guys were pretty upset with the way they jumped in the first round. But we will just have to liv...
DAVE JARRETT

When we left, we were hoping to get a mulligan, but things didn't work out that way. So we will star...
DAVE JARRETT

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces bet...
KEITH JARRETT

It's a physical game, man. Nobody's fighting a lot here, but all year, when we played physical hocke...
COLE JARRETT

The bottom line is we didn't come and get it done. It's easy to make excuses. I don't like to do it,...
COLE JARRETT

I took an extra step and I slipped a little bit on my break,
DWAYNE JARRETT

He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT

That Oklahoma guy that thought the only guy we had on the team was Reggie? ... I guess he's kind of ...
DWAYNE JARRETT

It's big for everything. We needed that win, and we needed it bad.
JARRETT STOLL

We needed to get one out here, maybe two, and we did get one so hopefully we can get on top of Game ...
JARRETT STOLL

Just no added pressure. Some people might think it is added pressure but if he takes it as that it c...
JARRETT STOLL

I just try to let the game come to me. I try to get my teammates involved first.
JARRETT SPARKS

Coach basically told us to play it one game at a time.
JARRETT SPARKS

That's something we talked about. We noticed that we were coming out flat at the start of games. We ...
JARRETT SPARKS

I've always been more of a scorer. When I got here they moved me to the point. It's different becaus...
JARRETT SPARKS

It was like starting over. I had to prove myself again. It was an adjustment. I didn't know coach (M...
JARRETT SPARKS

It's a huge game. The last time we played, we played one of our worst games this year.
JARRETT SPARKS

You could buy a stock in Europe and the market could be closed for three or four days during the Chr...
JARRETT LILIEN

Customers are engaging with us on more fronts.
JARRETT LILIEN

We're doing a great job with the core retail customer, servicing them with cash products, credit pro...
JARRETT LILIEN

We're very competitive in price ... where I think we were a little behind, frankly, was customer ser...
JARRETT LILIEN

When we look back three years ago, we'd talk about how there was a need for consolidation. It's mind...
JARRETT LILIEN

I'm not doing anything differently. I had some good chances.
JARRETT KONKLE

We didn't play badly in the first. We had lots of energy.
JARRETT KONKLE

We showed for 40 minutes that we could be the better team.
JARRETT KONKLE

We're all young kids. I think we all just enjoy playing. Every time we step out there on the court I...
JARRETT JACK

You look at this team and the Clippers and the roles were reversed a couple of years ago. Now they a...
JARRETT JACK

It's nothing that none of us are used to. It's going to be an adjustment for all of us trying to pla...
JARRETT JACK

It was a game where we were kind of embarrassed. We didn't have the great performance that we wanted...
JARRETT JACK

If we come and play for 48 minutes the entire game, we can compete with anybody. We've got to come a...
JARRETT JACK

It was just a clinic showing us how the game is played. They really shared the ball. You can tell th...
JARRETT JACK

We can talk about it all we want to. But if we're not going about it with the effort and the focus i...
JARRETT JACK

For that to happen on the biggest game, on the biggest stage is tough to swallow.
JARRETT JACK

It's basically a win-win situation. If I decide to go pro or if I decide to come back [to school], i...
JARRETT JACK

These are two good wins for us the last two nights. Mike got his wheels going at the end. He's a lit...
JARRETT HOFFPAUIR

It's out of my control. I can just go out, play hard and see what happens.
JARRETT HOFFPAUIR

It's on everybody's mind, playing in the big leagues.
JARRETT HOFFPAUIR

The biggest thing, aside from his strength, is he always changes things up. He doesn't do the same t...
JARRETT HICKS

We'll miss a lot of seniors. But Coach Leach instills in us that we are a good team.
JARRETT HICKS

That was definitely something we talked about during our whole bowl preparation. After being off for...
JARRETT HICKS

We're all definitely excited to see him play. We've been sitting on our hands over the past year, wa...
JARRETT HICKS

It was really a great game between two great teams and it's too bad anybody had to lose. We both put...
JARRETT HICKS

The front nine hurt us. But I was hearing that from a lot of the schools today.
JARRETT HATCHER

All of our players played pretty well.
JARRETT HATCHER

Bell is a sophomore. He has a nice future ahead of him.
JARRETT HATCHER

I would defy anybody anybody in this chamber, anybody in Massachusetts to say that the apocaly...
JARRETT BARRIOS

The difference is that we have marriage. We've got a world that hasn't changed.
JARRETT BARRIOS

If that's not a call to action, then I don't know what is.
JARRETT BARRIOS

We are truly pleased that the members of the House refused to be railroaded into passing bad legisla...
JAN JARRETT

It will take more than just a few election cycles to complete the restoration of our environment, an...
JAN JARRETT

Our plan for the Commonwealth will promote a quality environment and dynamic economy. We propose tax...
JAN JARRETT

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
BEDE JARRETT

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
KEITH JARRETT

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
KEITH JARRETT

I wasn't running a full schedule that year [1966] and Kenny asked me to sit in on the broadcast one ...
NED JARRETT

The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and...
CLAUDIA JEWETT JARRETT

One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly ...
CLAUDIA JEWETT JARRETT

It is the caring and sharing that countlove is not prevented by the things and the time that you h...
CLAUDIA JEWETT JARRETT

Man is whoever he thinks he is, within his own boundaries.
DUDLEY DAVIDSON-JARRETT

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belie...
ELIZABETH JARRETT ANDREW

I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the ins...
ELIZABETH JARRETT ANDREW

When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path...
ELIZABETH JARRETT ANDREW

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

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On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

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