Sarah Dessen Quotes

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

Admiral, you have wasted half an hour of my time.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

I got no time for the jibba-jabba.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!

If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.