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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - fro...
SARA BLAKELY It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become mem...
SARA BLAKELY I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my ...
SARA BLAKELY I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attit...
SARA BLAKELY When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a perma...
SARA BLAKELY My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn...
SARA BLAKELY My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I...
SARA BLAKELY It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.
SARA BLAKELY I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head...
SARA BLAKELY Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You ...
SARA BLAKELY Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if y...
SARA BLAKELY Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure t...
SARA BLAKELY My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything excep...
SARA BLAKELY My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
SARA BLAKELY When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing b...
SARA BLAKELY I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in ...
SARA BLAKELY Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call ...
SARA BLAKELY I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals...
SARA BLAKELY In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to ...
SARA BLAKELY My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a hu...
SARA BLAKELY I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-h...
SARA BLAKELY I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no ...
SARA BLAKELY I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realiz...
SARA BLAKELY The figures were a little bit below my numbers but not a whole lot as I'd already taken out a bit on...
ANDREW BLAKELY The basic principle for doing the hedging is that it's fairly heavy oil and they want to basically h...
ANDREW BLAKELY I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was...
ANDREW BLAKELY The news should not have a material impact on (Woodside's) operations. Contract negotiations are an ...
ANDREW BLAKELY We see a lot of people scrambling to develop new assets given the high oil price environment.
ANDREW BLAKELY The story revolves around newly hired TV talk show host Tyler Stone. He's a control freak who comes ...
AARON BLAKELY We based Tyler, who is a very annoying guy, on a good friend of ours. When we told him, we thought h...
AARON BLAKELY Texans... never pass up an oppurtunity to boast whence they hail.
MIKE BLAKELY Some of them are not well known around here yet, like Jed & Kelley, who moved here from Tennessee,
MIKE BLAKELY We're done with the amateur hacker phase and into the serious electronic crime era. The problem real...
BOB BLAKELY This has actually been warmer than we would like it to be.
BOB BLAKELY The board was comfortable with going forward and pursuing it slowly. It's still in the infancy stage...
BOB BLAKELY Mr. Offerman clasps his hand on top of hers. “It’s a good hobby for you, dear. It gets you out o...
LAUREN BLAKELY Trends bubble up from Miami.
LINDA BLAKELY She is a clothes horse. She is always looking for a way to express herself through her clothes. But ...
LINDA BLAKELY

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
MARY KAY BLAKELY

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by-pass. After such a monumental assaul...
MARY KAY BLAKELY

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any ...
MARY KAY BLAKELY

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute ...
MARY KAY BLAKELY

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, unti...
MARY KAY BLAKELY

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute ...
MARY KAY BLAKELY

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
MARY KAY BLAKELY AKO, while it is a great tool for the Army, it is not unique in the Web world. We do represent the U...
LT. COLKENNETH BLAKELY When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things ...
SARA SAMPAIO

I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of plan...
SARA RAMIREZ

, The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are...
SARA PADDISON

, The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment ...
SARA PADDISON I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and ha...
SARA RUE

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...
SARA TEASDALE

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
SARA TEASDALE

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth...
SARA TEASDALE

I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
SARA TEASDALE

I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD My body doesn't have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don't have hips - so I'm n...
SARA SAMPAIO Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
SARA GRUEN Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and ...
SARA MILES

When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. Ther...
SARA PADDISON

Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendships alive despite separation, distance, or time. Care...
SARA PADDISON

You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. Wh...
SARA PADDISON

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
SARA TEASDALE

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have ...
SARA SHERIDAN

The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kind...
SARA SHERIDAN

From my spirit's gray defeat,
From my pulse's flagging beat,
From my hopes that turned t...
SARA TEASDALE

I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
SARA EVANS

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations...
GRACE SARA

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn...
GRACE SARA

Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger
SARA EVANS

Occasionally all you need is a minute of courage to break into a world of opportunity.
SARA SECORA

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be you...
SARA SHEPARD

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
SARA TEASDALE

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
SARA TEASDALE

Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least ...
SARA TEASDALE

Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the pla...
SARA PADDISON

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
SARA TEASDALE

Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams...
SARA TEASDALE

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
SARA PADDISON

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't...
SARA PADDISON My favorite nights out are the most random ones - when they start at a bowling alley and end up some...
SARA SAMPAIO

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be...
SARA SHERIDAN There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because o...
SARA SAMPAIO

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my te...
SARA ZARR

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get...
SARA RAMIREZ

There's nothing like the first kiss once you've been pronounced husband and wife. It's s...
SARA RAMIREZ My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my yo...
SARA PARETSKY It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
SARA PARETSKY I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.
SARA PARETSKY You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.
SARA PARETSKY I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
SARA PARETSKY I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
SARA PARETSKY I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
SARA PARETSKY I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
SARA PARETSKY I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY I'm a daydreamer.
SARA PARETSKY I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
SARA PARETSKY I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a...
SARA PARETSKY Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of tell...
SARA PARETSKY I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI...
SARA PARETSKY Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Super...
SARA PARETSKY In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of books...
SARA PARETSKY I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where...
SARA PARETSKY I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
SARA PARETSKY White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
SARA PARETSKY Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
SARA PARETSKY People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secret...
SARA PARETSKY The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
SARA PARETSKY I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invalua...
SARA PARETSKY I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other...
SARA PARETSKY I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
SARA PARETSKY Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive ...
SARA BAREILLES For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.
SARA SAMPAIO In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wond...
SARA BAYSINGER

When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl k...
SARA RAMIREZ The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from...
SARA GRUEN

I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with f...
SARA SHEPARD

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...
SARA TEASDALE I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard ...
SARA PAXTON

My Mexican specialty is chilaquiles. I make tortillas from scratch, then add garlic, onions, eggs, c...
SARA RAMIREZ

Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things...
SARA TEASDALE

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.
SARA ZARR Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Me...
SARA RAASCH Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.
SARA ELLA

Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
SARA HUMPHREYS I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being ...
SARA SAMPAIO Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic...
SARA PARETSKY I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my rese...
SARA CANNING I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretc...
SARA FOSTER

When I've lost weight, some fans get very upset because they want me to stay curvy. But my own s...
SARA RAMIREZ

, The Hidden Power of the Heart As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you'll h...
SARA PADDISON We need to see better to be better.
SARA NILES Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours.
SARA CRAVEN

Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those...
SARA ZARR

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your hea...
SARA ZARR

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
SARA TEASDALE My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these cra...
SARA BAREILLES

I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.
Ezra smiled. "Can I come?
SARA SHEPARD Safe drinking water isn't just something to worry about on your tropical vacation. U.S. tap wate...
SARA GILBERT I love Paris, but it's not a city I would like to live in. It's one of my favorite cities bu...
SARA SAMPAIO You are the sun, I try to say, You are the most important. You are the only light that's ever truly ...
SARA WOLF

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga...
SARA SHERIDAN Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clar...
MIA SARA

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an E...
SARA SHERIDAN

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the...
SARA SHERIDAN The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It ge...
SARA HARRISON Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.
SARA COLERIDGE

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
SARA TEASDALE

The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are ...
SARA PADDISON

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always g...
SARA ZARR

Stephen kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And n...
SARA TEASDALE

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.
SARA TEASDALE

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noo...
SARA TEASDALE

Can I ever know you Or you know me?
SARA TEASDALE

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the...
SARA ZARR

I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who ar...
SARA ZARR

She knew too much. -A
SARA SHEPARD

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so...
SARA SHEPARD

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
SARA SHEPARD

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
SARA TEASDALE

Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frus...
SARA PADDISON

When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power i...
SARA PADDISON

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move ...
SARA PADDISON

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes
SARA TEASDALE

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
SARA TEASDALE I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, ...
SARA BAREILLES When you really connect to someone, you can crack their soul of stone and see through them as though...
SARA STRAIN

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
SARA TEASDALE It's important to remember that saturated fat is still the main dietary culprit that raises LDL chol...
SARA MURKOWSKI You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivate...
SARA GILBERT

We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund H...
SARA SHERIDAN

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the...
SARA SHERIDAN

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof. – On Starlit Seas
SARA SHERIDAN

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom. – On Starlit S...
SARA SHERIDAN

Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience...
SARA SHERIDAN

A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk cau...
SARA SHERIDAN

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still ...
SARA SHERIDAN I love all the teenager stuff like 'Glee,' '90210,' 'Vampire Diaries,' '...
SARA SAMPAIO Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be o...
SARA RUE I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.
SARA GILBERT

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe...
SARA SHERIDAN We are part of Life as a whole, yet a whole within ourselves. Like a multi-faceted diamond, birthed ...
SARA DANN We've been experiencing perpetual powder days.
SARA ALDRIDGE It's further evidence of how unnecessary the runway was, and is now. It just feels like, what a sad ...
SARA BARWINSKI

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably do...
SARA TEASDALE A good place to start initially would be school plays.
SARA GILBERT Allowing Medicare buy-in for caregivers of Medicare beneficiaries, or tax credits for caregivers' me...
SARA COLLINS I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in l...
SARA QUIN

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't h...
SARA SHERIDAN I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into th...
SARA GRUEN I'm alive when I talk to you, but I die a million times without you.
SARA STRAIN Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
SARA RAASCH

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
SARA TEASDALE When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they...
SARA HARRISON I sing 'I Have Confidence' from 'The Sound of Music' as Judy Garland, Celine Dion, B...
SARA CHASE

Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and fl...
SARA SHEPARD

I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.
SARA RAMIREZ

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