Sarah Koenig quote: "My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily."

If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmental...
SARAH KOENIG

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselve...
SARAH KOENIG

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time.
SARAH KOENIG

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.
SARAH KOENIG

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to ...
WALTER KOENIG

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
WALTER KOENIG

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution a...
WALTER KOENIG

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
EZRA KOENIG

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigoro...
EZRA KOENIG

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you d...
EZRA KOENIG

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.
EZRA KOENIG

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a ...
EZRA KOENIG

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.
EZRA KOENIG

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KOENIG

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Eur...
EZRA KOENIG

Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed t...
WALTER KOENIG

A lot of people committed suicide when they saw there is no hope.
ADAM KOENIG

I'm disappointed, ... I feel like Northern Kentucky is once again getting the shaft.
ADAM KOENIG

They take off our hair, haircut, the clothing away, had a shower, cold, and they hit us, ... My firs...
ADAM KOENIG

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.
EZRA KOENIG

It is not too late for the High Point and the greater Triad area to make a difference in how the mar...
KEITH KOENIG

By not putting it in the earnings release, that was an attempt to minimize it.
MARK KOENIG

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think ther...
EZRA KOENIG

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples t...
EZRA KOENIG

Click Commerce customers include six of the top 10 National Institute of Health-funded academic medi...
NANCY KOENIG

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
WALTER KOENIG

I've supported the governor before. I look forward to seeing more of his agenda pass in the upcoming...
ADAM KOENIG

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import...
EZRA KOENIG

I didn't want to plead guilty to anything. It's hard to answer whether one word would have changed w...
MARK KOENIG

Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
EZRA KOENIG

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.
EZRA KOENIG

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Under...
EZRA KOENIG

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
EZRA KOENIG

I would sit back and still keep up with parties, but for the most part, the plan is for this to be a...
CYNTHIA KOENIG

Initially I felt I wanted to buy the whole catalog. It was a great way to network with other mothers...
CYNTHIA KOENIG

I wish I had a crystal ball to tell me what would happen, because I was such a nervous wreck today. ...
DAN KOENIG

We thought it was a good way to honor my father's service. And this is really important because we a...
DAN KOENIG

It's undying. It's the pinnacle of rock 'n' roll.
GARY KOENIG

It's time now to redirect resources towards supporting studies that try to understand how religious ...
HAROLD KOENIG

What that study finds will help tell us which way to go -- whether there are intriguing findings or ...
HAROLD KOENIG

They're not claiming they are identifying how this occurred; they're just saying maybe we should tak...
HAROLD KOENIG

We thought it was a good way to honor my father's service, ... And this is really important because ...
HAROLD KOENIG

Many, many people pray. Many people would like to know if their prayers are being heard.
HAROLD KOENIG

New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and Those Who Love Them
HAROLD KOENIG

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.
GARY KOENIG

Classic rock show tickets sell out in a matter of minutes. And they're willing to pay hundreds of do...
GARY KOENIG

I just like watching arrows fly. At the end of the day, no matter how well or bad you shot, you can'...
JULIUS KOENIG

I've shot better. I'm shooting all right.
JULIUS KOENIG

They (the teachers) just mesh so well. I'm excited to see what happens in the next two months.
JEFF KOENIG

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.
EZRA KOENIG

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's un...
EZRA KOENIG

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
EZRA KOENIG

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
EZRA KOENIG

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
EZRA KOENIG

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by ...
EZRA KOENIG

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and ...
EZRA KOENIG

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
EZRA KOENIG

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion...
EZRA KOENIG

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you'...
EZRA KOENIG

Making every record is a process full of tough times.
EZRA KOENIG

Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I...
DENNIS KOENIG AND JORDAN BUDDE

Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross th...
DENNIS KOENIG AND JORDAN BUDDE

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

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

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

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

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec...
SARAH DESSEN

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo...
SARAH DESSEN

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan...
SARAH DESSEN

If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer ...
SARAH PERE

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."...
SARAH DESSEN

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...
SARAH DESSEN

My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&...
SARAH GADON

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

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My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

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