Sarah Dessen Quotes

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

Sarah Dessen

• World
• Moving
• Hands
• Knowing
• Gripping

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Want
  • Gang

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Character
  • Down
  • Within

• Everything I publish is for my readers.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Everything
  • Readers
  • Publish

• One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Book
  • Know
  • Characters

• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Team
  • Me

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Know
  • Annoyed
  • Honey

• Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • People
  • Love
  • Attention

• I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Ego
  • Check
  • Prideful

• Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Money
  • Democracy

• 'Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.'

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • She
  • Breathe

• When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

  

  George MacDonald
  • World
  • Work
  • Sympathy

• You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Church
  • Alabama

• not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

  

  Freda Adler
  • Experience

• How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Moving
  • Hands