Sarah Dessen Quotes

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

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• Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Books

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Somebody

• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fight
  • Knew
  • Won

• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Men
  • Young
  • Old

• I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Bad
  • Plays
  • Behind

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Felt

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • She
  • History

• Web GIS provides us with a whole new window into our information through applications that are easy, 3D, and analytic. These applications are not just casual things, but reach deep into geographic knowledge and apply it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Information

• There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Know

• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

  Origen
  • Know
  • Justice
  • Place

• This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Problem

• I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Free
  • Running
  • Feel

• They brought the house up-to-date and did it in a beautiful way.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Together
  • Feel
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