Sarah Dessen Quotes

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

Sarah Dessen

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • You
  • Cutting

• The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Hand
  • Cutting
  • Down

• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Day
  • Play

• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Advice
  • Wanted
  • Welcome

• I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Wanted

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Doctor

• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Job
  • Past
  • Growing

• I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Writer

• Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Love
  • Best
  • Plant

• In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Wanted
  • Everyone
  • Opera

• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  

  Lily James
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hair

• It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Long
  • Country
  • Game

• My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

  

  Christopher Gorham
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Food

• Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Women
  • Society
  • Military

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Media

• I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear forever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous.

  

  Charles Brockden Brown
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Broken

• To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heaven
  • Door
  • Errors

• Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Cutting
  • Wanted
  • Eighteen