Sarah Dessen Quotes

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Sarah Dessen

• Leaving
• Hard

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

  

  Sam Snead
  • You
  • Just
  • Nobody

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Walls

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• 'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Memory
  • Two
  • Collection

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Special
  • Deserve
  • Suits

• One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Change
  • How
  • Within

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Home
  • Never
  • Son

• The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

  

  Lisa Gansky
  • Time

• Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Study
  • Leaving
  • Found

• Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Me

• What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

  

  Tacitus
  • Today

• Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

  

  Amy Wright
  • Popular
  • Year
  • Colors

• Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Leaving
  • Hard