Stephanie Perkins Quotes

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

Stephanie Perkins

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• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Be Happy

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Other

• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Will
  • Tell

• Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Good
  • May
  • Success

• Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Unexpected

• If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Good
  • Reading

• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Future
  • Hair
  • Wear

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• I haven't touched meat or anything like that in over six years. You know what's pretty trippy, once I stopped, I didn't get sick from that point on. I'll get a light cold once in a while, but ever since that, I've just been completely on my toes and it helps for surfing too, to stay light on your toes and be healthy.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Pretty
  • Light
  • Years

• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • War
  • Small
  • Peace

• I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

  

  Will Wright
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Bats

• I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Blessed
  • Fortunate
  • Explain

• Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Children
  • Emotion
  • Bushes

• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Strong
  • Sleep
  • Emotion

• How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Emotion
  • Twisted
  • Tied