"Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2004). “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

#Wish Quotes #World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.”
“You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
“I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.”
“Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.”
“'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.”
“No one calls me out, I'm from LSU.”
“The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.”

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