Thursday Tan Quotes & Sayings

You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else? — Kristen Stewart

In truth we re-create our reputation every day. Journalists with thirty years of credibility have washed their careers down the drain with one plagiarized paragraph. — Anonymous

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite. — Kris Kristofferson

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. — Michael Stipe

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development — David Crystal

In all the time I'd known her, I'd hardly touched her. But her hand on mine felt so right and real, so powerful in its own weird way. It didn't make sense to me why this one girl affected me like that. — Sibylla Matilde

These signs are real. They are also symptoms of a process. The process follows the same form, the same structure. To apprehend it you will follow the signs. All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic. Useful to you, gentlemen, but no longer so to us here. If you want the truth - I know I presume - you must look into the technology of these matters. Even into the hearts of certain molecules - it is they after all which dictate temperatures, pressures, rates of flow, costs, profits, the shapes of towers ... '
'You must ask two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control? — Thomas Pynchon

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift. — Scott Douglas