If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks ...
SHARON OLDS I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ...
SHARON OLDS There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and fo...
SHARON OLDS There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets a...
SHARON OLDS At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
SHARON OLDS The Knowing

Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise-
comaed and woken, we lie a l...
SHARON OLDS I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at ...
SHARON OLDS Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning ...
SHARON OLDS I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
SHARON OLDS Free Shoes

The pairs of shoes stand in rows,
polished and jet, like coffins...
SHARON OLDS Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 It ...
GLENN OLDS Ultimately, this approach will give consumers greater control, and businesses powerful new ways to i...
DALE OLDS I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ...
CHANITA OLDS It was like we had known each other all our lives.
CHANITA OLDS I wanted her to go out those doors with something to remember.
CHANITA OLDS We're one of the better teams in the conference. Last year we were at the bottom. We always remember...
CHANITA OLDS When the buzzer went off I had to sit down, because everything was a blur.
CHANITA OLDS The Internet has changed the way consumers think about privacy, and Higgins will help change the way...
DALE OLDS She's just a tremendous inspiration for me as a coach and I use her as well as many other former pla...
CHANITA OLDS We did something that nobody thought we were able to do. It's a different atmosphere here.
CHANITA OLDS I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during t...
DAN OLDS This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. ...
DAN OLDS This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. ...
DAN OLDS This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. ...
DAN OLDS We can assume there are increased numbers of reported sexual assaults (not necessarily increased sex...
KRIS OLDS The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have ...
IRVING S. OLDS I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know ...
SHARON TATE Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
SHARON SALZBERG Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo...
SHARON GLESS From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if w...
SHARON SALZBERG Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seei...
SHARON SALZBERG In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and o...
SHARON SALZBERG The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
SHARON SALZBERG 'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make...
SHARON MAGUIRE But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.
SHARON GLESS Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have thing...
SHARON GLESS Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you...
SHARON GLESS Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
SHARON SALZBERG We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in thei...
SHARON STONE If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and ene...
SHARON SWAN It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a dar...
SHARON SALZBERG You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
SHARON SALZBERG Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
SHARON WEIL Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
SHARON WEIL We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can b...
SHARON CAMERON It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will beco...
SHARON CAMERON We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
SHARON STONE If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
SHARON STONE The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.
SHARON LEE Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.
SHARON RIIS So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good ...
SHARON SHINN You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and aff...
SHARON SALZBERG Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant str...
SHARON GOLD I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.
SHARON STONE Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
SHARON SALZBERG I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
SHARON STONE I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, ...
SHARON STONE I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrende...
SHARON SALZBERG There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
SHARON GLESS Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold...
SHARON SALZBERG Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's th...
SHARON DRAPER Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep...
ARIEL SHARON Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowled...
SHARON SALZBERG We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those co...
SHARON SALZBERG This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state...
SHARON SALZBERG I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
SHARON DRAPER I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a...
SHARON DRAPER With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w...
SHARON DRAPER I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
SHARON DRAPER Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do...
SHARON DRAPER I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platfo...
SHARON DRAPER When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
SHARON BEGLEY Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help y...
SHARON SALZBERG Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewi...
SHARON SALZBERG The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christ...
SHARON GLESS But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
SHARON GLESS The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chan...
SHARON SALZBERG The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing the...
SHARON SALZBERG I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and ...
SHARON SALZBERG As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a...
SHARON JONES The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outwa...
SHARON BOLTON As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for g...
SHARON STONE Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirati...
SHARON SALZBERG The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some ki...
SHARON SALZBERG Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.
ARIEL SHARON Jordan is Palestine. The capital of Palestine is Amman. If Palestinian Arabs want to find their poli...
ARIEL SHARON We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring...
SHARON SALZBERG Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.
ARIEL SHARON Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making...
ARIEL SHARON Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
SHARON HORGAN I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only ...
SHARON STONE I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very ...
SHARON STONE I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDon...
SHARON STONE I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I&...
SHARON STONE Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10...
ARIEL SHARON If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love...
SHARON SALZBERG With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that ...
SHARON SALZBERG She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exis...
SHARON MAAS I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: ...
ARIEL SHARON Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.
SHARON CAMERON After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealt...
SHARON STONE It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Isr...
ARIEL SHARON If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, iso...
SHARON SALZBERG As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are d...
SHARON SALZBERG We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every ...
ARIEL SHARON Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensi...
ARIEL SHARON It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
ARIEL SHARON I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But ...
SHARON STONE I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they...
SHARON SHINN David Ben-Gurion understood that the public's trust is given to a leader in order to lead, deter...
ARIEL SHARON Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and visi...
SHARON SALZBERG Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destructio...
ARIEL SHARON Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had a...
SHARON STONE Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then whe...
SHARON CREECH We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
SHARON SALZBERG Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
SHARON SALZBERG If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intent...
SHARON SALZBERG Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
SHARON SALZBERG By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more lik...
SHARON SALZBERG Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere ...
SHARON SALZBERG Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
SHARON SALZBERG When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see t...
SHARON STONE The birth of a child is a very special time in the life of a parent. We wanted to give parents an oc...
SHARON WILSON birth pangs of a process.
ARIEL SHARON All the prime ministers have built the settlement blocs, but I built more than all of them, ... Sett...
ARIEL SHARON I try not to cut the sheep, or ruin the fleece.
SHARON ALLEN A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progre...
ARIEL SHARON We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails pain...
ARIEL SHARON If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the ni...
SHARON OSBOURNE I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled ...
SHARON CREECH I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy.
SHARON STONE My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and p...
SHARON LAWRENCE We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed ...
SHARON SALZBERG When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
SHARON SALZBERG I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to...
SHARON JONES They won't now be accused of bowing down to political pressure if they do decide to lower rates.
SHARON COOMBS On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Br...
ARIEL SHARON I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I&...
SHARON JONES You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and...
SHARON LAWRENCE It was just a courtesy call, not part of an official state visit.
SHARON GANG I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in...
SHARON STONE I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are ...
SHARON GLESS working document... not a take it or leave it document.
ARIEL SHARON When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
SHARON CREECH I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is somet...
SHARON CREECH I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fr...
SHARON STONE The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of dar...
ARIEL SHARON Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama...
SHARON GLESS What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would ...
ARIEL SHARON I was raised by my grandma and grandpa in Florida. My grandpa was a Primitive Baptist minister, and ...
SHARON SCOTT Sometimes our driver is the only person that our meals on wheels participants see everyday.
SHARON WILLARD We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happines...
SHARON SALZBERG I bid on the maidenhair fern at my garden club, and these hollyhocks came from my friend Millie's [S...
SHARON LANE It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have bee...
SHARON SALZBERG I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart ...
SHARON STONE If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people'...
ARIEL SHARON Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing.
ARIEL SHARON Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that ...
ARIEL SHARON Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 't...
SHARON JONES There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.
SHARON POLLOCK It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves pri...
SHARON SALZBERG We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something ...
SHARON SALZBERG That's not it at all. Our gas stations are just like our stores, we'll certainly be competitive in t...
SHARON WEBER I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation p...
SHARON SALZBERG We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. I...
SHARON SALZBERG It's an artistic sport; presenting a poodle is definitely a production.
SHARON STEVENS Netanyahu feels the heat, ... In any stressful situation he immediately panics and loses his cool.
ARIEL SHARON