Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Collins

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

Suzanne Collins

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

Suzanne Collins

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

Suzanne Collins

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone. 'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.' (Katniss and Boggs)

Suzanne Collins

The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.” -Katniss Everdeen

Suzanne Collins

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no district twelve.

Suzanne Collins

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.

Suzanne Collins

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.

Suzanne Collins

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

J. D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

George Wald

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

George S. Kaufman

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

Steve Smith

Twelve and five. That's a big difference. You can say what you want about us, but we can play.

Ray Bradbury

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

Patrick Rafter

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.

Mary MacLane

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

Judy Blume

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

Suzanne Collins

We could do it, you know.