Lauren DeStefano Quotes

I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.

Lauren DeStefano

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Too Much

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • People
  • History
  • True

• It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • World
  • Music
  • Community

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Happy
  • First

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Artist
  • Internet
  • Generation

• You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Care
  • Negative

• The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Interesting
  • Star
  • Random

• The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Business
  • Cancer

• I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Women
  • May
  • Red

• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.

  

  Kathy Griffin

• I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.

  

  Lauren DeStefano