Sarah Dessen Quotes

Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

Sarah Dessen

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• By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Night
  • Go
  • Bed

• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Issues
  • Direction
  • Paid

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Like
  • Clear
  • Bed

• I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Window

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Window

• If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Home
  • Now
  • Bed

• Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage
  • Bed
  • Legs

• If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Song
  • Bed
  • Rocks

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
  • Skills
  • Once

• With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Understand
  • Looking
  • Bed

• There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • School
  • May
  • High

• I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Fear
  • Losing

• I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Dad
  • Thought
  • Years

• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  

  William Davenant
  • Wonder
  • Eye
  • Lovers

• ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Window
  • Arm
  • City Store

• After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Made

• Believe it or not, it's my signature song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' because it's given me a license to sing all the great songs that I could sing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Window
  • Bed
  • Locks