Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

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• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Book
  • Nature

• Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

  Nanna Øland Fabricius
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Light

• Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Why
  • Sometimes

• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Matter
  • Wanted

• I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Why
  • Regret

• When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Perfect

• It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Party
  • Too Much
  • Blunders

• Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • Soul
  • Dream

• Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Why
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Country
  • Business

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Simple

• In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.

  

  Alan Young
  • Trying
  • School
  • Complex

• I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

  

  J. Cole
  • Walking
  • Grind

• They should've built a city on rock and roll.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Cities