Sarah Dessen Quotes

We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

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• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Wanted

• my fiancé is so handsome. Imma have to send his parents a fruit basket thanking them for creating the perfect man.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Parents
  • Perfect

• Hochschild’s biggest mistake, though, was one made by almost every popularized housework study: not adequately measuring men’s contribution to work around the home. For example, if mom drives the children to daycare, it’s called housework; if dad drives the family to grandma’s, it isn’t called housework.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Children

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life

• I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

  

  Adam-Troy Castro
  • Life
  • Money
  • Book

• I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Book

• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • America
  • Moving

• I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don't garden. And I don't knit.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Garden

• To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.

  

  Bill Nye
  • World

• I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Time
  • God
  • Kids

• It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

  

  Blythe Masters
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• The significant regulatory impact of reclassifying broadband services is not something that should be taken lightly and should not be done without additional direction from Congress.

  

  Gene Green
  • Done
  • Taken

• I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Golf

• On golden chairsSitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chantedTo those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tearsAnd for comforting all those whom you had wounded.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Comforting

• Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • World
  • Words
  • Change

• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Energy
  • Sea
  • Dwarves

• We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Earth

• Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Wanted
  • Found

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Night

• Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Regard

• We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Scars