Sara Bareilles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
-
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
-
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
-
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
-
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
-
I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
-
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
-
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
-
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
-
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
-
Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
-
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
-
My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.
-
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
-
I've got a one-dimensional mind.
-
I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
-
Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.
-
Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.
-
You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.
-
In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
-
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
-
My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
-
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
-
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
