Sarah Dessen Quotes
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
-
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
-
You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
-
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
-
Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
-
What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
-
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
-
When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
-
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
-
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
-
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
-
You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
-
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-
Two powerful people can't be friends.
-
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
-
I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
-
People judged my work without to have listened to it.
-
If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
-
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
-
I don't like seeing people angry.
-
We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.
-
For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
-
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
-
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
