Sarah Dessen Quotes

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

Sarah Dessen

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• And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Home
  • Easy

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Always

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Look
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Politics
  • Easy

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Job
  • Dark
  • Easy

• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Taken
  • Easy
  • Still

• It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Easy

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Easy
  • Blue

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Easy

• It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Easy

• A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Sometimes

• I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

  

  David Jason
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Cry

• Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Problem
  • Looks
  • Easy

• God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

  

  John Piper
  • God
  • Loved
  • Displayed

• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Age
  • Catastrophe
  • Fantasies

• Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Knows
  • Easy
  • Stranger