Sara Zarr Quotes

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
  • Wisdom

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Design
  • Ugly
  • Video Games

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Weird

• Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Help
  • You
  • Young

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Like

• A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

  

  E. B. White
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • School

• When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Why
  • Job
  • Game

• We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Book
  • Story
  • Judge

• The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Book
  • Truth
  • Bible

• I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Bad
  • Giving
  • Fighting

• My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Book
  • Wrote