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Alan Sheinwald Quotes

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William W. Purkey
“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
William W. Purkey

Marianne Williamson
“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Dr. Seuss
“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Amy Tan
“Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

Marilyn Monroe
“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Groucho Marx
“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx

Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Mark Twain
“Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.”
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

Stieg Larsson
“She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.”
Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

Steve Martin
“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Steve Martin
“So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”
Steve Martin, Shopgirl

Stieg Larsson
“-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.”
Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Steve Martin
“. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.”
Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes

Steve Martin
“I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?”
Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

Steve Martin
“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.”
Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty