Judith Tarr Quotes

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Universe
  • Rich
  • Window

• American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Powerful

• Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Curiosity
  • Ending

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Great
  • Music
  • Experience

• Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Body
  • Unique

• If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• A word is worth a thousand images.

  

  Andreas Gursky
  • Thousand

• Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Perspective

• They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Friendship

• That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it's probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

  

  Adam Richman
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Term

• When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Cutting

• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Brainy

• No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

  

  Morris West
  • Running
  • Liberty
  • Debate

• Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Management
  • Biggest
  • Adjustment

• The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Belief
  • Facts
  • Shows