Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
-
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
-
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
-
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
-
I played point guard my whole life.
-
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
-
I am about safety for the people and the planet.
-
I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
-
You can never be too rich or too thin.
-
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
-
I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
-
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
-
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
-
Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
-
I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'
-
Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.
-
As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.
-
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.
-
If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
-
I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'
-
I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.
-
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
