Sarah Quotes
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.
The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.
Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.
The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back.
Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.
Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am holding this moment up to the light and saying, "Wow, will you look at that?"
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.
With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'
The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.