Ann Brashares Quotes

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Time
  • Choose
  • Just

• It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Confident

• Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Path

• There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Rude

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Bad
  • Medicine
  • Economists

• I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Society
  • Process
  • Reflect

• I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• This is the land which ye Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Unity

• 'Truth' is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Truth
  • Organization

• What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.

  

  Edward Lear
  • Tree

• Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Music
  • She
  • Energy

• I don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Purpose
  • Clever

• It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Happy
  • Birthday

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

  

  Lisa O'Hare
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Narcissist

• America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Believe
  • Country
  • America

• A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Concentrate
  • Surgeon
  • Technical Ability

• It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

  

  Ann Brashares