Donna Tartt Quotes

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

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• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Make
  • Seen

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Politics

• I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Important
  • Want

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Practice
  • Happiness

• Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Action
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Way
  • Always
  • Afraid

• I would love to have my own lingerie line.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Love
  • Line
  • Lingerie

• Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work

• If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Powerful

• In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.

  

  Karl Marx

• Block my blog if you want, but I cannot self-censor, because that is the only reason I have the blog. We both know this is a game. You have to play your part, and I have to play mine.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Game

• The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Political
  • Nations
  • Distinction

• I'm interested in film - any aspect - acting, directing, writing.

  

  Adam West
  • Writing

• I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Book
  • Perfect

• I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

  

  Aurora Guerrero
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Young

• Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

  

  Donna Tartt