Sarah Dessen Quotes

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

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• I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Better
  • Explore

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Potential

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Germs

• I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Up
  • Long
  • Try

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Why
  • Always

• There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Artist
  • Never
  • Effort

• The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Internet
  • Ignore

• Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

  

  H. C. Bunner
  • Writing
  • Things
  • Lived

• Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Attention
  • Management

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Diversity

• I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Small

• Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Enemy
  • Attitude
  • Habit

• A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Community
  • Powerful
  • Enjoy

• I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Roots
  • Charismatic
  • Pentecostal

• Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Process
  • Challenging