Sarah Dessen Quotes

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

Sarah Dessen

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• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Man
  • Simple

• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Mother
  • Language

• I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Like
  • Always
  • Loved

• I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Work
  • Free
  • Animal

• I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Everything
  • Dinner

• I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Sports

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Football
  • Wonder

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Done
  • Purpose
  • Immigration

• In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Everyday

• More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • People

• Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

  

  David Ayer
  • Time
  • Different
  • Color

• Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

  

  Matt Damon
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.

  

  David Milne
  • Moving
  • Sales
  • Engineering

• As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Community

• We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Summer

• When I got to college, I discovered how many incredible opportunities NASA offered students pursuing a career in the space industry.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • Career
  • College
  • Space

• Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • History
  • Learn

• But in this world every thing has its evil ; the dust is on the wheels of the conqueror's chariot-the silken-wrought tapestry covers the mouldering wall;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • World
  • Evil
  • Wall

• Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

  

  Dick Wolf
  • Art

• I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Age
  • Game
  • Goal

• Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Long
  • Death
  • Cool

• Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

  

  Sarah Dessen