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Mike Schmoker

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A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, t...
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UFUOMA APOKI Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children se...
LEO BUSCAGLIA Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
LEMONY SNICKET I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after read...
LAURIE R. KING And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...
ALAN BENNETT He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.
DEXTER PALMER 'Read across America' is a nationwide program to promote reading to students of all ages.
LAUREN SPICER Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.
MANOJ ARORA One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
IVAN STOIKOV These are student organizations who are the best representatives of the students. They can decide wh...
JOHN MCNAMARA When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor...
T. B. JOSHUA My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy...
WENDY FROUD Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together hap...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For younger students, parents should spend time reading to them and listening to them read, then ask...
BARBARA HARVEY It's exciting to walk through and see chemistry students drawing compounds and talking. It's not jus...
JOYCE OGBURN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I form...
TAHEREH MAFI Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
ITALO CALVINO I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN I do not think students should have to read a select number of classics,
JOHN BELL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all...
CHARLES T. MUNGER I miss being a student," said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and m...
HELEN SIMONSON Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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MIKE BIRBIGLIA Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don&#...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's ...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook...
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