Ungifted Quotes

“Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Our fans are great; our team is nifty! We’re going to get blown out by fifty!”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“We’re all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie—” “Right,” I snorted. “She said I’m dumber than her bladder-challenged dog.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That’s why I needed ancestry.com.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Hey, things like that happen at the Academy too,” I insisted, almost triumphantly. “Last year the freezers failed so there was no ice for”—the wind went out of my sails as I realized how lame this was going to sound—“the sushi bar.” He nodded sympathetically. “You guys should get T-shirts made. You know: I Survived the Sushi Crisis.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Maybe they were. Very little was beyond Noah’s capabilities when he wasn’t mounting a concerted effort to flunk.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Schultz.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“You’re going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone’s going to break it for you.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“the knoll”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“UNIDENTIFIED”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Challenge isn’t going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It’s going to come from life.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“We’re gifted,” I explained.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That’s”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“Noah stepped forward for a closer look. “If it’s a girl,” he said finally, “then what’s that?” And we could all see exactly what he was pointing at.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“UNEXPLAINED
DONOVAN CURTIS
IQ: 112”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“to break”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“all sides—why pick on the guys? We girls weren’t exactly homecoming queens either. Abigail was a genius biochemist, but her greatest fashion statement was her white lab coat. She looked like she hadn’t”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“want a refund from ancestry.com. They traced my family all the way back to the revolution. And in all those forefathers and foremothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, there was nobody like me.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“You’re going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone’s going to break it for you.” My dad. He was probably right. They were all right. But when the thing is right there in front of me, and I can kick it, grab it, shout it out, jump into it, paint it, launch it, or light it on fire, it’s like I’m a puppet on a string, powerless to resist. I don’t think; I do. It can be little things, like throwing darts at a pool float to test my sister’s swimming skills, or spitting back at the llamas at the zoo. It can be more creative—a helium balloon, a fishhook, and Uncle Mark’s toupee. It can even be the smart-alecky comments that got me voted Most Likely to Wind Up in Jail in my middle school the last two years running.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“cocky”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“You’re going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone’s going to break it for you.” My dad.”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“<>”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“<>”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“sex”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted

“everybody else thought it was there because it was supposed”
― Gordon Korman, Ungifted