Sarah Dessen Quotes

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

You never know what next week brings.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Timing in life is everything.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.