Sarah Quotes

I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.

Missing rubs the soul raw.

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Donald Trump is brash and loud and courts a lot of media attention.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

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.

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.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

As with any music that one feels quite close to, I'm very critical, too. I care a lot. I pay a lot of attention.