"I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't."

-- Mary Roach

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”
“The more I train, the more luckier I become.”
“Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.”
“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”
“The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger.”
“Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.”
“I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.”

Source : Deborah Wiles (2016). “Countdown”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.
“Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.”

Source : "Nancy Reagan's Inspiring Legacy for Women" by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 11, 2016.

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