Judith Tarr Quotes

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

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• I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Politics
  • Vote

• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Success
  • Childhood
  • Professional

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Knowing
  • Intellectual

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Prevented
  • Abdicate

• My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Anchor

• I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Feelings

• Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Training
  • Divorce

• America’s media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Catholic

• A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

  

  William Jackson
  • Law
  • Support
  • State

• The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Soul
  • Air
  • Model

• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Soul
  • Teach
  • Architecture

• I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Soul
  • Hard
  • Times

• Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Soul
  • Books
  • Revelation