S.W. Collins Quotes

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

There isn't a certain time we should set aside to talk about God. God is part of our every waking moment

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I'm feeling pretty good. A lot of people don't know this, but I am not currently in prison, which feels great.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Stay with me. Always.

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

Tick tock, this is a clock.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.

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

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.