Sarah Dessen Quotes

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Thus far we run before the wind.

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

Everything moves way too fast.

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

I always liked speed.

My special thing is my speed. I'm fast.

Certainly, I want to be the first through the sound barrier in a car.

The faster I can get, the better as well.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

I think the appropriate kind of skepticism is this: you've got to be asking questions all the time, you've also got to make sure that you're doing so in the spirit of genuinely wanting to find the answers - and that also means being open. I battle with this: I know I tend to be very skeptical and as a result, I veer towards the dismissive. But being aware of the tendency, I like to challenge my own skepticism and make sure it's not just knee-jerk. You need to be skeptical towards yourself as well. When you're only skeptical outwards you've got an unbalanced skepticism.

Mother, I want to see him fly!