Deborah Tannen Quotes

It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.

Deborah Tannen

Quotes to Explore

I think we know how to do Mars.

Mae Jemison
- Think
- Know
- Mars
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Victoria Abril
- Career
- Most
- Other
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Wale
- Mother
- Father
- Parents
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

Yo-Yo Ma
- Important
- Done
- Think
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot
- Beginning
- End
- Start
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

Saint Ignatius
- Turn
- Angels
- Hierarchy