Sarah Dessen Quotes

I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

Sarah Dessen

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• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Way
  • Another
  • Desperate

• I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Funny
  • Training
  • Acting

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Road

• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Power
  • Will
  • Quiet

• I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Work
  • She
  • Knowledge

• I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feel

• Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Words

• The creation of 'Into The Gloss' took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office - you know, the whole thing.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Work
  • Team

• Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Weekend

• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant

• Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Fear
  • Control

• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Free
  • Silence

• I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Food

• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  

  Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Life
  • Water
  • Air

• I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Moving
  • Air
  • Calling