Deborah Tannen Quotes
My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
Karla Souza
-
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott
-
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
-
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
-
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
-
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
Gary Ross
-
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer
-
No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
Ted Deutch
-
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
N. Scott Momaday
-
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson
-
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
-
I'm not cynical.
Laura Schlessinger
-
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
Kate Bush
-
I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
-
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern
-
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
Abraham Verghese
-
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
-
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
Oliver Goldsmith
-
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!
Geraldine Jewsbury
-
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
Naomi Klein
-
My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
Olivia Culpo
-
My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
Deborah Tannen