Donna Tartt Quotes

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Donna Tartt

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Different
  • Done
  • Never

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Know
  • Learn

• In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Man
  • Corrupt
  • Seem

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Want
  • Party
  • Fight

• I have matured a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lot
  • Matured

• Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Tales

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• I think a lot of people don't understand the makeup of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program population, of the food stamp population, 80 percent senior citizens, people with disabilities, children, and those who are actually in the work force working. The folks who are not - who are able-bodied, who are adults, who don't have dependents, there's a desire to make sure that they get to work and that they aren't basically gaming the system. But the reality is, they have a responsibility to either be involved in work or education, or they're limited in terms of their benefits.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Reality

• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Pain
  • Laughter

• Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Children