Annie Carroll Moore/children%E2%80%99s Book Week

Famous quotes containing the words carroll, moore, book and/or week:

    “As one who strives a hill to climb,
    Who never climbed before:
    Who finds it in a little time,
    Grow every moment less sublime,
    And votes the thing a bore:”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “The monkeys winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras,
    supreme in their abnormality; the elephants with their fog-colored skin
    and strictly practical appendages”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “many an eye that all its age had drawn its
    Beam from a Book ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I’m entertaining them and I know that they know. Obviously, the best meetings are with suits that are intelligent, because then things are operating on a whole other level.”
    —Madonna [Madonna Louise Ciccione] (b. 1959)