Tapien Quotes & Sayings

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. — Peter Ackroyd

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. — George MacDonald

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience
more desirous of security than of safety. — Richard Whately

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. — Thomas Cleary

I love my own music. — Alicia Keys

I'd always escaped into books, but now reading had become something more. It allowed me to be somewhere else, to feel something else, not just the numbness that overtook my body and made me wonder if I was still alive. — Demitria Lunetta

People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention. — Marco Arment

The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another. — Kira Hawke

I'm more worried about being dead than lost, Detective. — Brian M. Holmes

Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It was such a novelty that he feared people would laugh at him in church; he was greatly relieved, and a little proud, to find that they did not. He also worried, not unreasonably, that the hair of wigs might come from plague victims. Perhaps nothing says more about the power of fashion than that Pepys continued wearing wigs even while wondering if they might kill him. — Bill Bryson

Everything, good or bad, was down to me. — Dorothy Koomson

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky