Sarah Quotes

Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

How can one live without hope and longing?

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

I love that smell of the emissions!

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful. She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

Men die but sorrow never dies.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

A successful team beats with one heart.

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

I never photograph reality.

The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.

There is no fate, but what we create.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.