Sarah Dessen Quotes

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Grandparents

• If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Never
  • Capable
  • Cricket

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Only

• I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Sense

• It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Time
  • World
  • Strange

• The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Good

• The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.

  

  Akhenaton
  • Wise

• I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Future
  • Education
  • Team

• I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Practice

• It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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