Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

Sarah Rees Brennan

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• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• I give away thousands of paintings for free.

  

  Banksy
  • Free
  • Give
  • Away

• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Air

• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Real

• Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Believe
  • America

• We would never comment on private correspondence.

  

  Prince Charles

• I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Freedom

• What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music
  • Emotional

• None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

  

  James Nachtwey

• I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

  

  Masi Oka
  • Fun
  • Challenge
  • Superhero

• Chris and myself, some nights we're going to struggle and we're not going to be able to get it done. We need other guys to step up. When you get 31 from a guy off the bench, you're supposed to win that game.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Done
  • Guy

• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Believe
  • Different

• The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

  

  Nick Blaemire
  • Moments
  • Inspired
  • Able

• For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Moments
  • Staring
  • Stillness