Gary D. Schmidt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

You can't imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example, which was true. We couldn't.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

You should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the

Thanks for what?" he said. "Everything," I said.

If Mrs. Baker Hates your guts, why don't get some.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

One day we ran all the way to Jones Beach, and if Mrs. Sidman hadn't sent a bus after us, I think we would have collapsed on the boardwalk and died.

A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Thanks," I said. "Go home," he said.

By the way, in case you weren't paying attention or something, did you catch what Mr. Powell called me? "Young artist." I bet you missed that.

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

No one talked because we all wanted to scream.

Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.

How come when you're feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? How come?

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

We carry our childhood with us.

You know how that feels?

When Mr. Ferris found out about the Broadway play, Clarence didn't stop rocking during the whole lab.