Sarah McLachlan quote: "I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind."

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be ab...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always h...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going thro...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let not...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort o...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from,
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It&#...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There'...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Heaven bent to take my hand
And lead me through the fire
Be the long awaited answer
T...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Everybody loves you when you're easy. . .Everybody hates when you're a bore. . .Everyone is waiting ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

We're just here to put on a great musical show and I think any social or political issues are second...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can's say and you just walk away... I grieve in my c...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

In the arms of the angels, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent re...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beau...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

We asked all sorts of people from all different walks of music and this is who we got this year, who...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I have to sort of get myself back out there and this is sort of out of the frying pan into the fire.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I thought, 'Well, why don't I get some of the women who I've had open up for me before and some arti...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you s...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Why are there so many songs about ravens, and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but on...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and th...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I Will Remember You,
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates
SARAH MCLACHLAN

If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the o...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence Of existing for only youI know I can't be with youI do what I...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

In the lonely light of morning, in a world that would not heal, it's the bitter taste of losing ever...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an eq...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Heaven bent to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and pa...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'll Say I'm Sorry Now
SARAH MCLACHLAN

You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. A...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Hold on, hold on to yourself, for this is gonna hurt like hell.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Am I faithful, am I strong, am I good enough to belong? In your reverie of a perfect girl?
SARAH MCLACHLAN

The more we take the less we become,The fortune of one man means less for some
SARAH MCLACHLAN

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to kno...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and y...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to ...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. C...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype ea...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

Trying to force creativity is never good.
SARAH MCLACHLAN

She's a very tough filly. She's come through the race terrific. She's a very good back-up filly. She...
BRUCE MCLACHLAN

That race is like a 1400m anyway and it will tell me if she can go on to the Guineas or remain again...
BRUCE MCLACHLAN

I don't think there is any doubt he would have won at the Gold Coast if he had not struck interferen...
BRUCE MCLACHLAN

There are a couple of different options for her,
BRUCE MCLACHLAN

He just didn't handle the heavy track. I'll push on and hope it dries up,
BRUCE MCLACHLAN

The deep ocean floor is a new world, and it contains microbes and minerals and plant organisms that ...
IAN MCLACHLAN

We believe that even if we take the bottom line case, the territorial claim will be significant.
IAN MCLACHLAN

It's the biggest single distribution of territory ever. This magnitude of territory is usually only ...
IAN MCLACHLAN

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: mish...
SARAH CHURCHWELL

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said th...
SARAH VOWELL

The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as t...
SARAH PINBOROUGH

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
SARAH SNOOK

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
SARAH PALIN

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ...
SARAH KAY

Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with a...
SARAH GADON

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau...
SARAH WATERS

Buck up or stay in the truck.
SARAH PALIN

never stop playing
SARAH WINMAN

Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.
SARAH WINMAN

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
SARAH WINMAN

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ...
SARAH PALIN

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, ...
SARAH CHURCHWELL

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
SARAH DREW

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The direc...
SARAH SUTTON

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'...
SARAH SILVERMAN

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don...
SARAH PALIN

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or ...
SARAH ZETTEL

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes s...
SARAH SILVERMAN

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.
SARAH SHAHI

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it r...
SARAH PINBOROUGH

I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with...
SARAH PAULSON

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them dow...
SARAH SHAHI

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
SARAH BROWN

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
SARAH ZETTEL

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hun...
SARAH HALL

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.
SARAH NOFFKE

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
SARAH DESSEN

Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear ac...
SARAH HALL

In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night f...
SARAH ZETTEL

The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfal...
SARAH RAJKOTWALA

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible ...
SARAH PAULSON

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humani...
SARAH NOFFKE

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sort...
SARAH DUNN

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING

[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

Reach me down my

If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN

Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assum...
SARAH DESSEN

But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open ...
SARAH OCKLER

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
SARAH DESSEN

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY

He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that...
SARAH DESSEN

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN

So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...
SARAH VOWELL

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
SARAH BOSELEY

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN

You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN

Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you anoth...
SARAH DESSEN

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into a...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There we...
SARAH DESSEN

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
SARAH DESSEN

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
SARAH DESSEN

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...
SARAH DESSEN

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...
SARAH DESSEN

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
Yo...
SARAH DESSEN

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
SARAH DESSEN

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ...
SARAH DESSEN

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN

Don't think or judge, just listen.
SARAH DESSEN

There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ...
SARAH NOFFKE

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...
SARAH DESSEN

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I...
SARAH DESSEN

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...
SARAH DESSEN

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...
SARAH DESSEN

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and eve...
SARAH DESSEN

She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.
SARAH MAYBERRY

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
SARAH DESSEN

You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live you...
SARAH GERDES

For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the...
ROBERT SARAH

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist...
SARAH DESSEN

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
SARAH DESSEN

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
SARAH DESSEN

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...
SARAH DESSEN

I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.
SARAH OCKLER

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a...
SARAH DESSEN

He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't ...
SARAH DESSEN

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who c...
SARAH DESSEN

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ...
SARAH DESSEN

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv...
SARAH DESSEN

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple...
SARAH DESSEN

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I...
SARAH MACLEAN

I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN

All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ...
SARAH BERNHARDT

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t...
SARAH CALDWELL

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the...
SARAH BERNHARDT

Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w...
SARAH BERNHARDT

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop...
SARAH BERNHARDT

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig...
SARAH BERNHARDT

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per...
SARAH BERNHARDT

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin...
SARAH BERNHARDT

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ...
SARAH BERNHARDT

As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
SARAH CHURCHILL

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
SARAH BERNHARDT

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ...
SARAH CALDWELL

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.
SARAH MILES

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

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I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

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