Whose Voice Is It?

1. Whose Voice Is It? Answers

2. “I meant what I said And I said what I meant… An elephant’s faithful One hundred percent!” ~ Dr. Seuss in Horton Hatches the Egg • If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hop-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer … ~ Shel Silverstein in Where the Sidewalk Ends

3. For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farm house that Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one. ~ L. Frank Baum in The Wizard of Oz • Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. ~ Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

4. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet • The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, “We haven’t got father, and shall not have him for a long time.” ~ Louisa May Alcott in Little Women

5. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded. ~ Edgar Allen Poe in The Tell-Tale Heart • Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut. ~ George Orwell in Animal Farm

6. It was a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. ~ Mary Kate Shelley in Frankenstein • You need to have an iron rear to sit upon a cactus, or otherwise, at least a year of very painful practice. ~ Jack Prelutsky in The New Kid on the Block

7. Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, into Your brother’s face, your country, And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning. ~ Maya Angelou in On the Pulse of Morning • Sometimes I ask myself, “Could I play for me?” The answer ‘s not always yes. ~ Pat Summit in Rise to the Summit

8. If you ask me everyone was feeling sorry for the cootie queen just because mouse got sick and couldn’t come to Maine. Everyone but me that is. ~ Judy Blume in Fudge-A-Mania • Showers of dust and broken tile and bits of wood and cockroaches and spiders and bricks and cement went raining down on the three old ones who were lying in the bed, and each of them thought that the end of the world was come. ~ Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

9. To the east of the little log house, and to the west, there were miles upon miles of trees, and only a few little log houses scattered far apart in the edge of the Big Woods. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder in Little House in the Big Woods • “Control myself?” yelled Fern. “This is a matter of life and death, and you talk about controlling myself.” ~ E.B. White in Charlotte’s Web

10. Ramona did not think she was a pest. No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest. The people who called her a pest were always bigger and so they could be unfair. ~ Beverly Cleary in Ramona the Pest • We have only one rule here: Don’t do anything that is detrimental to yourself. Because if it’s detrimental to you, it’ll be detrimental to our program and to Duke University. ~ Mike Krzyzewski in Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life

11. The fame & recognition the show brought me will forever mystify me. But it’s over now, and I’d like to leave the frustrations and heartaches behind me. I think I can. ~ Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre in I Never Played the Game • I love this university and I do not want to cause it any harm. In addition, although I have been toughened over the years by the pressures of these battles, the pain I now see in my children’s eyes makes me realize none of this is fun for anyone. ~ Don Yaeger with the cooperation of Jerry Tarkanian in Shark Attack

12. We never had enough food. But at least I could beat on other kids and steal their lunch money and buy myself something to eat. I could steal candy bars, too. But I couldn’t steal a father. I couldn’t steal a father’s hug when I needed one. I couldn’t steal a father’s ass-whipping when I needed one. ~ Bo Jackson and Dick Schaap in Bo Knows Bo • I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. ~ Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol