Sarah Quotes

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

There are notes between notes, you know.

Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

I would say at times I am a 'Glamoholic.' But I am definitely more laid back than glamorous.I think it takes a lot of effort and sometimes I just want to be in jeans.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different.

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.

Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Life has no romance without risk.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

Forget the past and live the present hour.