Deborah Tannen Quotes
Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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My hunger is always there.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.
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I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
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Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.
