Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

"Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

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• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Business
  • Book
  • Reading

• I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Change
  • Always
  • Shoes

• The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Human
  • Fight
  • Exploitation

• I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Want
  • Place
  • New York

• Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Honor

• 'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Art
  • Disappointment

• We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.

  

  P. D. James
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Die

• The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Existence
  • Duty
  • Patient

• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
  • Job
  • Respect

• I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word 'urban' but - when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who's launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We tend to get what we expect.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Expect
  • Tend

• "Lay the knife at the tips of your fingers," Rob commanded. "So close youcan feel the blade against your skins. Then cut the shadow away." Jared had been silent in her head. Now Kami turned her mind to his and let his thoughts and feelings flow through her. Kami, please, please wait just another moment, Jared begged, I'll save you, and later I'll be better, I'll do anything you want, be anything you want me to be. Please don't do it.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Waiting