Jerry Spinelli quote: "Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow."

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...
JERRY SPINELLI

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of slee...
JERRY SPINELLI

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.
JERRY SPINELLI

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories....
JERRY SPINELLI

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I ...
JERRY SPINELLI

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al...
JERRY SPINELLI

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t...
JERRY SPINELLI

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten...
JERRY SPINELLI

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...
JERRY SPINELLI

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ...
JERRY SPINELLI

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Their voices came in clearly from the golf course. The laughing and yelping made a raucous counterpo...
JERRY SPINELLI

I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I ...
JERRY SPINELLI

So, I said, when does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It...
JERRY SPINELLI

I'm disappearing, Leo. Like Dootsie's trick, except this is real. Who are you if you lose your favor...
JERRY SPINELLI

I’m not sure,” she said. “There’s no one answer to that. You have to
find your own way....
JERRY SPINELLI

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone
JERRY SPINELLI

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it ...
JERRY SPINELLI

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.'
Maybe that explains ...
JERRY SPINELLI

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through an...
JERRY SPINELLI

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our s...
JERRY SPINELLI

I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell int...
JERRY SPINELLI

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change i...
JERRY SPINELLI

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let th...
JERRY SPINELLI

You’ll know her more by your questions than by her answers. Keep looking at her long enough. One d...
JERRY SPINELLI

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the...
JERRY SPINELLI

In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become...
JERRY SPINELLI

I played Little League in junior high and high school.
JERRY SPINELLI

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "wei...
JERRY SPINELLI

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...
JERRY SPINELLI

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Li...
JERRY SPINELLI

Home is everything you can walk to.
JERRY SPINELLI

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
JERRY SPINELLI

I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Who are you?'
I didn't understand the question.
I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'
JERRY SPINELLI

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to ...
JERRY SPINELLI

She was illusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, th...
JERRY SPINELLI

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other peopl...
JERRY SPINELLI

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.
JERRY SPINELLI

And each night in bed I thought of her as the moon came through my window. I could have lowered my s...
JERRY SPINELLI

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and...
JERRY SPINELLI

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very hea...
JERRY SPINELLI

If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but ...
JERRY SPINELLI

A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard....
JERRY SPINELLI

To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, ...
JERRY SPINELLI

You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but ...
JERRY SPINELLI

I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be...
JERRY SPINELLI

She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But sea...
JERRY SPINELLI

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
JERRY SPINELLI

The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building

Must Clocks be circles?
Time is not a circl...
JERRY SPINELLI

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.
JERRY SPINELLI

It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the ...
JERRY SPINELLI

I began to feel again something that I had been only dimly aware of before. It was a small, surprisi...
JERRY SPINELLI

Our hearts yearn backward. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home...
JERRY SPINELLI

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundr...
JERRY SPINELLI

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
JERRY SPINELLI

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . ...
JERRY SPINELLI

I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unl...
JERRY SPINELLI

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yours...
JERRY SPINELLI

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
JERRY SPINELLI

Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, t...
JERRY SPINELLI

They don't live here. They live in Heaven.'
Where's that?'
I don't know,' I said. 'Enos sa...
JERRY SPINELLI

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'

No,' I said.

People who dress up their pets...
JERRY SPINELLI

I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night....
JERRY SPINELLI

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's qu...
JERRY SPINELLI

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
JERRY SPINELLI

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,...
JERRY SPINELLI

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and...
JERRY SPINELLI

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge...
JERRY SPINELLI

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense ...
JERRY SPINELLI

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without di...
JERRY SPINELLI

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going...
JERRY SPINELLI

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
JERRY SPINELLI

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering ar...
JERRY SPINELLI

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
JERRY SPINELLI

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.
JERRY SPINELLI

I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
JERRY SPINELLI

You liked me."
I smiled.
"You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beau...
JERRY SPINELLI

He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes,...
JERRY SPINELLI

Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver'...
JERRY SPINELLI

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that ti...
JERRY SPINELLI

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my ey...
JERRY SPINELLI

I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into ...
JERRY SPINELLI

She laughed, and the desert sang.
JERRY SPINELLI

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
JERRY SPINELLI

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning...
JERRY SPINELLI

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.
JERRY SPINELLI

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?
JERRY SPINELLI

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.
JERRY SPINELLI

Heart and head are contrary historians.
JERRY SPINELLI

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, ye...
JERRY SPINELLI

Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
JERRY SPINELLI

Star people are rare.
JERRY SPINELLI

The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Some...
JERRY SPINELLI

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
JERRY SPINELLI

The echo of her laughter is the second sunrise I awaken to each day, and at night I feel it is more ...
JERRY SPINELLI

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.
JERRY HELLER

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
JERRY MORAN

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
JERRY SPRINGER

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER

To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ...
JERRY HALL

We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on ...
JERRY FALWELL

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibi...
JERRY SALTZ

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a ...
JERRY DOYLE

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...
JERRY BROWN

There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.
JERRY OPPENHEIMER

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't ow...
JERRY SALTZ

Kevin Garnett was a great player, but he wasn't Kobe Bryant.
JERRY WEST

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We&#...
JERRY HALL

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then ...
JERRY HALL

When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and...
JERRY HALL

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
JERRY HARRISON

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us f...
JERRY SALTZ

Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gal...
JERRY FALWELL

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the ...
JERRY GARCIA

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' Bu...
JERRY REINSDORF

When I bought the team, I wasn't thinking about a new arena. But obviously I'm very proud of...
JERRY REINSDORF

Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors,...
JERRY YANG

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their...
JERRY SEINFELD

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensi...
JERRY SALTZ

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the cou...
JERRY HALL

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers ...
JERRY GREENFIELD

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. Y...
JERRY SEINFELD

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoff...
JERRY BROWN

When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and...
JERRY JONES

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ...
JERRY RICE

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great par...
JERRY JONES

I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.
JERRY DOYLE

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. Th...
JERRY SALTZ

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smud...
JERRY SALTZ

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rh...
JERRY LEIBER

The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional milit...
JERRY COSTELLO

Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces y...
JERRY GREENFIELD

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they had...
JERRY HELLER

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
JERRY GELLIS

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $200...
JERRY GILLIES

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Board...
JERRY SPEYER

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
JERRY WELLER

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodma...
JERRY LEIBER

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marr...
JERRY MCCANT

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
JERRY ONLY

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY

My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I w...
JERRY HALL

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
JERRY FALWELL

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
JERRY GELLIS

If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday.
JERRY REYNOLDS

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and an...
JERRY SALTZ

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about...
JERRY MCNERNEY

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
JERRY SEINFELD

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess ...
JERRY SEINFELD

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the othe...
JERRY SEINFELD

Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are...
JERRY BRIDGES

I've had great success being a total idiot.
JERRY LEWIS

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.
JERRY WEINTRAUB

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and frag...
JERRY RUBIN

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still t...
JERRY GILLIES

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
JERRY BROWN

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
JERRY GILLIES

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rain...
JERRY CHIN

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
JERRY WEST

When the game is over it is really just beginning.
JERRY KRAMER

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
JERRY MARTIN

I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...
Not easy. There's an ent...
JERRY SEINFELD

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIA

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energ...
JERRY GILLIES

The government is becoming the family of last resort.
JERRY BROWN

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to h...
JERRY GILLIES

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
JERRY LEWIS

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the onl...
JERRY GARCIA

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside a...
JERRY GILLIES

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
JERRY GARCIA

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.
JERRY MARTIN

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
JERRY BROWN

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the ...
JERRY GARCIA

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
JERRY GILLIES

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important th...
JERRY GILLIES

Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
JERRY BROWN

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ...
JERRY RUBIN

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho...
JERRY ADLER

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe...
JERRY BRIDGES

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
JERRY SEINFIELD

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
JERRY RUBIN

Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
JERRY BROWN

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i...
JERRY SEINFELD

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th...
JERRY SEINFELD

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN

A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
JERRY SEINFELD

Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac...
JERRY STAHL

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th...
JERRY FALWELL

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
JERRY MORAN

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic...
JERRY CANTRELL

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms,...
JERRY SALTZ

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

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Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

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