R. L. Stine Quotes

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

The arm which should have launched the thunderbolt was occupied in guiding the pen.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

See this pen! I can end your lives with a stroke of this pen!

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

We're celebrating our sixth year with my Fleetwood's, and in a restaurant, that's a lot.

I was an emcee for bar mitzvahs from age sixteen to twenty-one.

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

My memories of Christmas, it was more about being around family.

When my mother was around, she would insist on celebrating my birthdays.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.