Sarah Dessen Quotes
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~RubySarah Dessen
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady Gaga -
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
Rachel Roy -
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington -
I'm an all-or-nothing person.
Taylor Kitsch -
I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
Ralph Lauren -
It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
Paloma Elsesser
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder -
For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
Jack Vance -
Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea.
Lewis Carroll -
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
Keegan-Michael Key -
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley -
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
Fred Savage -
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
Corbin Bernsen -
I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.
Jimmy John Liautaud
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I'm a believer in private enterprise, the dignity of work, limited government, and the possibilities of freedom.
Doug Ducey -
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.
Oprah Winfrey -
When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.
Elspeth Huxley -
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
Sarah Dessen