Sarah Dessen Quotes

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

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• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• Go you and, with such glorious hues,Live with proud peacocks in green parks.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Live
  • Proud
  • Green

• If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Law

• A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Men
  • Drinking

• And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • People
  • Health

• In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Done

• You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Great
  • Game

• What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Important
  • Live
  • Game

• I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life

• We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Bad

• I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

  

  Anohni
  • Career

• A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Catholic

• The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Secret
  • Mystery
  • Love Is

• It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Technology
  • Military

• You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  

  Sarah Dessen