Mark DiCamillo quote: "The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint."

Even though various groups hold very different attitudes, it's important to all sides. It's an issue...
MARK DICAMILLO

When all is said and done, there's no Democrat on the horizon who's the odds-on favorite and there a...
MARK DICAMILLO

As time passes, there is a greater acceptance of gay and lesbian rights and greater support of anti-...
MARK DICAMILLO

(Brown) still remains among the top tier of personalities in California in terms of name recognition...
MARK DICAMILLO

Many voters are reappraising Schwarzenegger. They're a little puzzled because they're not sure which...
MARK DICAMILLO

What you see is kind of a balanced assessment. There are some policy positions where some voters are...
MARK DICAMILLO

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO

I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
KATE DICAMILLO

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...
KATE DICAMILLO

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w...
KATE DICAMILLO

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He k...
KATE DICAMILLO

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they...
KATE DICAMILLO

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you wri...
KATE DICAMILLO

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ...
KATE DICAMILLO

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, wh...
KATE DICAMILLO

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
KATE DICAMILLO

My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.

My favo...
KATE DICAMILLO

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
KATE DICAMILLO

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
KATE DICAMILLO

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.

Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the ...
KATE DICAMILLO

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. <...
KATE DICAMILLO

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat i...
KATE DICAMILLO

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
KATE DICAMILLO

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
KATE DICAMILLO

Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
KATE DICAMILLO

Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...
KATE DICAMILLO

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not bein...
KATE DICAMILLO

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
KATE DICAMILLO

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.
KATE DICAMILLO

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phras...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is swee...
KATE DICAMILLO

But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said,
"I forgive you,...
KATE DICAMILLO

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
KATE DICAMILLO

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear re...
KATE DICAMILLO

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that...
KATE DICAMILLO

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, alwa...
KATE DICAMILLO

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make ...
KATE DICAMILLO

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...
KATE DICAMILLO

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thi...
KATE DICAMILLO

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.
He admired his own defiance.
And then, reader, he ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O...
KATE DICAMILLO

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and y...
KATE DICAMILLO

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
KATE DICAMILLO

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is...
KATE DICAMILLO

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, ...
KATE DICAMILLO

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
KATE DICAMILLO

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mo...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo...
KATE DICAMILLO

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...
KATE DICAMILLO

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
KATE DICAMILLO

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
KATE DICAMILLO

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i...
KATE DICAMILLO

These products all draw on Polaroid's heritage for innovation, ease-of-use, fun and immediacy.
GARY DICAMILLO

The next 12 months will be unmatched in Polaroid history for number and breadth of new products comi...
GARY DICAMILLO

August retail results were up in both cameras and film. In addition, the company continues to make p...
GARY DICAMILLO

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use ca...
GARY DICAMILLO

As we anticipated, the strong U.S. dollar and the Asian economic crisis had a negative impact. What ...
GARY DICAMILLO

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.
KATE DICAMILLO

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
KATE DICAMILLO

So many miracles have not yet happened.
KATE DICAMILLO

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha...
KATE DICAMILLO

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
KATE DICAMILLO

Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ...
KATE DICAMILLO

I am particularly pleased that all of the members of our bank group agreed to remain lenders to Pola...
GARY T. DICAMILLO

Our focus is to generate strong positive cash flow and invest in specific market opportunities, such...
GARY T. DICAMILLO

Today's announcement puts Polaroid on a more solid footing to enter 1999 poised for profitable growt...
GARY T. DICAMILLO

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN

I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN

All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL

I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON

If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN

When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN

Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO

There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI

I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD

I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI

The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS

The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint.

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The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own initiatives. It's got to be disastrous from the governor's standpoint.

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