Sarah Dessen Quotes

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • Prophet

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Freedom
  • Property
  • Original

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Cat
  • Napoleon

• 'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

  

  Frank Robinson
  • Good

• As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black

• When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Men
  • Boy

• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Architecture

• There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Amazing

• John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Friends
  • Legend

• I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

  

  Elise Andrew
  • Why
  • Science
  • Model

• Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Men
  • Liberty

• I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

  

  John Travolta
  • Thinking
  • Young
  • Died

• Music and the music business are two different things.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

  

  Earl Lloyd
  • Philosophy
  • Names
  • Calling

• It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Moments
  • Ugly
  • Lasts