Sarah Dessen Quotes

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Sarah Dessen

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Question
  • Internet

• Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • High
  • Small

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Musical

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Why
  • True

• In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Character
  • Think
  • Know

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • May
  • Evil

• Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Future
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Beautiful
  • Lost
  • Space

• I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Space
  • Behinds
  • Empty