Taylor Caldwell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
-
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
-
I think people appreciate honesty.
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
-
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
-
I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
-
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
-
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
-
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
-
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
-
I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
-
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
-
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
-
You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
-
When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
-
In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
-
Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
-
4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.
-
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
-
Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.
-
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
-
I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
-
My literary success meant nothing to me.
