Tesmanian Quotes & Sayings

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' — Maya Angelou

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels. — Paul Newman

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. — Susan Sontag

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people. — Joe Morgan

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning — Laura Nyro

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes. — Clifford Geertz

If we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits. — Douglas J. Moo

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency. — Robert C. Solomon

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way. — Karl Lagerfeld

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. — Baltasar Gracian

Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the sound of it.
He wasn't quite as pleased with his own. No matter how hard he tried to hide his accent, it always came out in certain words like "praline", "etouffee", "pecan", and any time he lost his temper. You could easily tell how mad he was by how Cajun he sounded. And if he started spewing all Cajun words, duck. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Advice for a human
86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love. — Matt Haig

I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's time for fun for me, because I don't know what I'm going to sing yet, and melody-wise I don't even have my lyrics written ... — Kirk Windstein

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit. — Michael Rosen

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together. — Frederick Lenz