Your students can have fun matching quotes from the arts with the people who issued the quotes.
Here are the people who issued the quotes:
Harriet Beecher Stowe – author of Uncle Tom`s Cabin
Stephen King – horror writer
Duke Ellington – jazz musician
Walt Disney – film producer
Bruce Springsteen – singer
Ernest Hemmingway – writer
Here are the quotes:
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." (Hemmingway)
"Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around." (Springsteen)
"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation." (Stowe)
"Girls bored me – they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I`ve ever known." (Disney)
"Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that`s not true. I have the heart of a young boy – in a jar on my desk." (King)
"It don`t mean a thing if it ain`t got that swing." (Ellington)