Sarah Dessen Quotes

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

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Turn
  • Confident

• 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

• 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 use Shazam all the time.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Time
  • Use

• I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Past
  • Struggle

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Necessary

• You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

  

  Chris Terrio
  • People
  • Up

• I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

  

  Leonard Lauder

• If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Free
  • Support
  • Progress

• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Money
  • Job
  • Value

• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. In fact, Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than one month. Number three. February 5, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the U.N. are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • Country
  • American

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

  

  Sarah Dessen
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