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

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• 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

• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Ending

• 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

• I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Character
  • War

• ...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

• To laugh is to live profoundly.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Laugh
  • Profoundly

• I want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Good
  • Different
  • She

• If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Together
  • Hills
  • Climbs

• The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

  

  Richard Jenkins
  • Moments
  • Innocent

• 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