Te Ata Quotes & Sayings

I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports. — Thomas Piketty

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing. — Ray Liotta

They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there, fading in places to a ghostly nothingness. Why recall the picture now, you must be wondering. The reason I remember it so well is that it seems to be an image of the way I have lived my own life. I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. — Diane Setterfield

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records. — Richelle Mead

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal. — Marsha Hinds

Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering. — Jeanne Segal

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own. — Richard D. James

With you, I know that what a the future. — Achda Dona Musthofa

You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close. — Nick Brandt