Sarah Dessen Quotes

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

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• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Words
  • Problem

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Research

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Facts
  • Explain

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Great
  • Why
  • Opportunity

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

  

  Hal David
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Everyone

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • War
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• One of the reasons so many kids bought Famous Monsters was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.

  

  Harry Knowles
  • Kids
  • Famous Monsters
  • Monster movies

• So, we’ve got a problem,” I said. “What?” Lend yelled. “We’ve got a problem!” I shouted. “No, I heard that. I mean, what’s the problem now?

  

  Kiersten White
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Said

• We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.

  

  Alan Curbishley
  • Said
  • Teams
  • Hardest

• It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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