Sarah Quotes

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needed to the flower; And joys and tears alike are sent To give the soul its nourishment.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

I just always felt like animals are spirit guides. I really like animals, I've always felt really drawn to them; they have this energy and magnetism.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

Your hair is an act of God.

I am the beast at the end of the rope.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Sometimes, love was not enough.