Sarah Dessen Quotes

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

Sarah Dessen

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Today
  • Europe
  • Closer

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Down

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Unique

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery

• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Courage
  • Attempt
  • Intimidated

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • May
  • Interesting

• I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Past

• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Done

• The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Enough
  • Sorry