Sarah Dessen Quotes

And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

Sarah Dessen

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• Choices
• Eye
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• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Revolution

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Old

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Goodness
  • Root

• Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Conquer

• I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Kid

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Business
  • Leader

• What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Want
  • You
  • Star

• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Say

• Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Work
  • Peace

• I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • She
  • Mom
  • Same

• You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Money
  • History

• Coaches are people who are close to you, who you call family.

  

  Jamie Brewer
  • People
  • Family

• I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

  

  Ellen Bass
  • Live

• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Different
  • School
  • Morning

• And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Choices
  • Eye