Sandra Newman Quotes

He wear a roo suit - grey-green dapple thing, ain't satisfy to be one ugly color, it be ugly twice. ~ Sandra Newman

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact. ~ Sandra Newman

Is nothing faithful in the world. Air itself betray. ~ Sandra Newman

Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me. ~ Sandra Newman

He says nothing, vehemently. I falter away and we sit, mutually staring into the fouled water ...
With time to kill, I ponder dismally the possible derivation of the zombie myth from people like my boyfriend. I picture Ralph blackened, semi-fingered, with bright bone peeking through his flesh. The odd small worm clings, festively wiggling. In my image, Ralph's really upset about decaying, and I feel for him sorrowfully. I want to tell him I would still love him, if he were decomposed. Of course in practice there is no predicting what I'd feel, and besides which, it's a wild associative leap.
I ponder dismally how I've alienated people, all my life, with my bizarre associative leaps. ~ Sandra Newman

It was beautiful to be heartbroken, it was as pleasurable as a thing could be. But pointless. ~ Sandra Newman

You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you? ~ Sandra Newman

Yo, I feel this been the truth of all our time together. We always been a grief that huddle close against a vicious light. ~ Sandra Newman

I know, ain't evils in no life nor cruelties in no red hell can change the vally heart of Ice Cream Star. ~ Sandra Newman

Then my tears come blinding, and he lead me by the arm. I stumble in the elevator, thinking of that moon rain. Salt that last forever, grief that live beyond all life. ~ Sandra Newman

You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors that scared us before - we're doing them. We're the monsters in the nightmare. ~ Sandra Newman

That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored. ~ Sandra Newman

After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before. ~ Leigh Newman

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally. ~ Sandra Cisneros

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride. ~ Sandra Bullock

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh

I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours. ~ Sandra Lee

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was. ~ Sandra Dee

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ~ John Henry Newman

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform. ~ Sandra Bartky

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us. ~ Liz Newman

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary. ~ Paul Newman

New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels. ~ Sandra Bernhard

We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year. ~ Paul Newman

Introverts, in contrast, are constitutionally programmed to downplay reward - to kill their buzz, you might say - and scan for problems. "As soon they get excited," says Newman, "they'll put the brakes on and think about peripheral issues that may be more important. Introverts seem to be specifically wired or trained so when they catch themselves getting excited and focused on a goal, their vigilance increases. ~ Susan Cain

I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else. ~ Sandra Steingraber

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent. ~ Sandra Cisneros

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer. ~ Sandra Tsing Loh

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless ~ John Henry Newman

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying. ~ Nell Newman

Standing in front of the kitchen sink, Sandra was shaking her head, her eyes unfocused. "Okay. I'm so confused. About so many things. First of all," she pointed at me, "I need the whole story. When did this happen? I didn't even know you liked him. And secondly," she turned to Greg, "what is the deal with you guys and the efficiency of your man-gossip phone tree?"
Greg gave her a droll look. "Don't be a hater, Sandra. You ladies need to learn how to communicate more effectively. ~ Penny Reid

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania. ~ Paul Newman

His entire aspect was menacing, starting with his chilling eyes and the pronounced bone structure of his face. He was tall and lean, but the skin on his arms was stretched over muscles that looked as taut as whipcord. The backs of his hands were bumpy with strong veins. His clothes and hair had snagged natural debris - twigs, sprigs of moss, small leaves. He seemed indifferent to all that, just as he did to the mud caked on his boots and the legs of his jeans. He smelled of the swamp, of sweat, of danger. ~ Sandra Brown

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth. ~ Randy Newman

Of course I know Julie Andrews. She's the last of the really great broads. ~ Paul Newman

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents. ~ Sandra Oh

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me. ~ Jaime Ray Newman

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. ~ Sandra Bullock

Sometimes I write a line and it fills me with self doubt. Sometimes I write a line and its poetry reduces me to tears. ~ Sandra J. Jackson

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet. ~ Sandra Lee

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class. ~ Sandra Cisneros

People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them. ~ Sandra Bernhard

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven. ~ Randy Newman

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being ... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~ Paul Newman

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole. ~ Randy Newman

People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don't look down at all except to be content to live on hills. ~ Sandra Cisneros

See them little scales there, how they're closed up tight like window shutters? Underneath 'em are the seeds - flat little things, flimsy as a baby's figernails - with a point at one end. If a fire comes along, the heat is gonna cause those scales to peel back and drop their seeds, while the ground is still scorching hot. Then that tiny seed is gonna burrow in and take root. I was nine years old the summer Freeda and Winnalee Malone rushed across our lives like red-hot flames, peeling back the shutters that sat over our hearts and our minds, setting free our sweetest dreams and our worst nightmares. ~ Sandra Kring

It was Saturday night at the Tune-In Cafe and the only person inside its dingy walls who wasn't drunk was seriously starting to wish that she were. ~ Sandra Marton

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. ~ Sandra Cisneros

We women always feel guilt, even about things that can't be helped. ~ Sandra Dallas

OK - answer me this: why would anyone want to wear an overcoat in San Francisco in the middle of summer?" Sophie Newman pressed her fingers against the Bluetooth earpiece as she spoke. On ~ Michael Scott

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically. ~ Sandra Bullock

The intensity of his expression caused her to tentatively ask, "What?"
"I've never been a big fan of the missionary position."
Not quite sure how to respond to that, she said simply, "Oh."
"I preferred making it any other way."
"Why?"
"Because it didn't have anything to do with getting off."
"What didn't?"
"Looking into the woman's face." He murmured the statement as though puzzled by it.
Her throat grew tight. She reached up and stroked his cheek. "You wanted to look into mine? ~ Sandra Brown

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. ~ David Mamet

But I have learned that if we have to change the world, we can't harden our hearts and shut ourselves off from other cultures. We must open up our hearts. We must not fall prey to the kind of thinking that separates us. Yes, you can appreciate your history and your culture. You can embrace it. But you can embrace other cultures too. And, yes, you can be angry and seek justice when you are attacked. I want the killers who targeted my people to face justice. But going forward, I don't want to spread the seeds of separation. I want to open myself to people of all races, cultures, and faiths. ~ Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix ~ Sandra Shamas