Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Days
  • April
  • Along

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Think

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Beauty
  • Democratic

• Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Think
  • Garden
  • Modern

• Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Faith

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Him

• The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Change
  • Risk
  • Climate Change

• Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Soul
  • Control
  • Failure

• Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Women
  • Care
  • Oppression

• It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Live
  • Author

• Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • People
  • Family

• Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People
  • Black
  • Independent

• The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • People
  • School
  • America

• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  

  Ashoka
  • Believer
  • Honour
  • Decry

• I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Dream
  • Mean
  • Dark