Sarah Quotes

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

It's a terrible process, what you go through, during pilot season. All the shows turn themselves in and there is a good four to six weeks before you get phone call.

I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.

You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work

How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Liking someone doesn't make you weak.

When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

I always work from an outline.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend.

John McCain has already tapped me.