Sarah Dessen Quotes

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

Sarah Dessen

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Release

• I really love learning and working long hours.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Long
  • Learning
  • Working

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Painting

• I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

  

  Dick Van Patten

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I talk about any number of things on my Facebook space. Politics. Current events. The writing life. The latest tempests in a teapot centering on fandom. Daily doings from my own life. My cats, for crying out loud. Flights of humorous fantasy. Books, both those I've read and those I've written. Movies. And occasionally, TV shows.

  

  Adam-Troy Castro
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Space

• I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Wish