Sara Zarr Quotes
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
-
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
-
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
-
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
-
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
-
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
-
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
-
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
-
Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
-
There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
-
It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
-
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
-
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
-
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
-
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
-
The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
-
You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
-
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
-
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
-
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
-
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
-
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
