Tarragona Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that. — Siri Hustvedt

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him — John Calvin

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian — Samuel Reshevsky

To sail beyond the sunset ... I'd thought that beautiful, once. But now I knew it was a wasted effort, chasing sunsets. There was nothing on the other side. — Susanna Kearsley

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. — Alain De Botton

Is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight. — Mike Tyson

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words. — Jhumpa Lahiri