Sarah Dessen Quotes

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

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• The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Joy

• Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Art
  • Society
  • Desire

• Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Brilliant
  • Actress

• I like the work that I get to do.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Work
  • Like
  • Get

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Joy
  • Distress

• Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

  

  Mahavira
  • Soul
  • Spiritual
  • Discipline

• The crime is now logical and reasonable.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

  

  Jasmine Cresswell
  • Great
  • American

• Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • People

• When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • People
  • Time
  • Criticism

• I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.

  

  James Carville

• So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Mind
  • Amazing
  • Missing

• If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

  

  Kygo
  • Time

• I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your team media guide. I don't want to be that. I do want to contribute, and if I don't contribute, I'll walk away from it. If I don't feel welcomed, I'll walk away from it.

  

  Jerry West
  • Good
  • Team

• Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Just
  • Out
  • Troublemakers

• I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

  

  Max Cannon

• Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letters
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Self-Development

• It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

  

  Sarah Dessen