Sarah Dessen Quotes

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Sarah Dessen

• Time
• School
• Happy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hope

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Rules

• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Very
  • Tomboy

• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Music
  • True
  • Walking

• No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Beauty

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • End
  • Perseverance

• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Ugly
  • Confident
  • Turn

• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Mathematics
  • Immortality

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Work
  • Future
  • Goal

• Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Roles

• I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

  

  Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
  • Giving
  • Choose
  • Thanks

• I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Time
  • Garden

• I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Time
  • School
  • Happy