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

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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 wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• 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
  • Play
  • Day

• 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

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Love
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at least four years. Maybe eight.

  

  Van Jones
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Years

• There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Book
  • Something
  • Brand

• 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