Sarah Dessen Quotes

But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

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• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Father

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Children
  • Family
  • Future

• Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Lies

• I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Music

• Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini

• In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

  

  Christen Press
  • Time
  • Player

• I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

  

  Dylan Minnette

• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  

  Brock Yates

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Life

• I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Moral

• The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Great
  • Important

• I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Couple

• It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Youth

• DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

  

  Doris Day
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Knowledge
  • Realizing
  • Fronts

• For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Car

• In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.

  

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
  • Faith
  • Understand
  • Jew

• But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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