Deborah Tannen Quotes
I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
Deborah Tannen
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor Swift
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard
You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
Jack Canfield
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
Larry Buchanan
The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
Kami Garcia
You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.
John Corbett
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
Samantha Power
I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
N. T. Wright
I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
Deborah Tannen
