Tantzi Na Quotes & Sayings

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time. — Aidan Chambers

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single thing we own owns us." Abigail from a thread of truth — Marie Bostwick

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. — Gunter Grass

All is as beautiful as we think it. — Robert Henri

I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back. — Karen Joy Fowler

I have to be a teacher to my daughters. — Carnie Wilson

When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously. — Franz Kafka

I've never scared anybody in my life. — Jim Crace

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. — John Hope Franklin

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note. — Ashton Shepherd

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann