Donna Tartt Quotes
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
-
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
-
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
-
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
-
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
-
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
-
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
-
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
-
We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
-
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
-
I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
-
I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
-
I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
-
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
-
I had a brilliant time working with the entire cast and crew at 'Return To Nim's Island.' It's amazing how, after working on a film, you really become a family, and you build these really special bonds together.
-
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.
-
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
-
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
-
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
