Sarah Dessen Quotes
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.
Quotes to Explore
-
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
-
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
-
I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
-
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
-
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
-
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
-
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
-
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
-
Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
-
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
-
I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
-
By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
-
I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
-
I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
-
I know one business, and that's how to make software.
-
It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
-
Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just as he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.
-
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
-
Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.
-
If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
-
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
-
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.
