Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.
Jerry Spinelli
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Like
Uncertainty
Uncomfortable
Merely
Rest
Maybe
Race
Human
Humans
More quotes by Jerry Spinelli
If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.
Jerry Spinelli
The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.
Jerry Spinelli
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.
Jerry Spinelli
Nothing’s more fun than being carried away.
Jerry Spinelli
Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.
Jerry Spinelli
I became a children's author by accident.
Jerry Spinelli
A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
Jerry Spinelli
His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
Jerry Spinelli
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
Jerry Spinelli
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
Jerry Spinelli
You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
Jerry Spinelli
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
Jerry Spinelli
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.
Jerry Spinelli
This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
Jerry Spinelli
As we meandered, she said my name three times: Stargirl? Yes? That was better than TV. It was. Stargirl? Yes? Does the sun do that everyday? Yes. Stargirl? Yes? Everyday is sun day.
Jerry Spinelli
When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
Jerry Spinelli
Events become feelings, feelings become events
Jerry Spinelli
You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.
Jerry Spinelli
Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?
Jerry Spinelli