Tennesseans For The Arts Quotes & Sayings

And you kept fighting even after you were knocked down. Goddamn it, you dragged your ass off the ground and you kept fighting. - John Matthew, LOVER MINE — J.R. Ward

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody — Charles Hamilton Aide

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic. — Monica Edwards

They say blood is thicker than water, but that doesn't mean shit. Everyone needs water to live. — Vi Keeland

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari. — Bob Marley

Face it, Tally-wa, you're special — Scott Westerfeld

As for Ms. Banks's claim that she didn't even notice that the gang rapists were Mexican and their victim white, YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. The media always notice race. It is the first thing they look for in any crime - hoping against hope to have finally found Tom Wolfe's "great white defendant." They'll even turn a Hispanic perpetrator white, as the New York Times did with George Zimmerman. After the police shooting in Ferguson, did anyone need to ask: Hey, does anyone know the race of the cop or the race of the guy he shot? — Ann Coulter

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated. — Frederik Pohl

People are reading. In fact, due to social media they are reading more than any time in history. Now we must find a way to get them to include books in all that reading. It starts with us writers doing a better job of writing. — Will Gibson

Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having them. — Ruth Peterman

It is what it is"... and "You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time, and sometimes when life throws things at you that are pretty challanging and it is really big elephant, envision it to be chocolate covered to make the bites much more yummy and easier to swallow." — T.L. Wood

The whole universe in all directions is the Flower of Dharma.* All Buddhas everywhere and all enlightened beings twirl and are twirled by the Flower of Dharma. — Brad Warner

The heavens are full of floating mysteries. — Thomas Buchanan Read