Tiena Taylor Quotes & Sayings

I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger home, to read the Times, to find out what's going on in the world. I have vomited at their newspapers, read their literature, observed their customs, eaten their food, desired their women, gaped at their art. But I am poor, and my name ends with a soft vowel, and they hate me and my father, and my father's father, and they would have my blood and put me down, but they are old now, dying in the sun and in the hot dust of the road, and I am young and full of hope and love for my country and my times, and when I say Greaser to you it is not my heart that speaks, but the quivering of an old wound, and I am ashamed of the terrible thing I have done. — John Fante

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives. — Christine Vachon

You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. You will get old and decrepit, and you will die, exhausted from all that living. — Miranda July

The tongue is a match that can set the whole body on fire. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet. — Bob Dylan

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind. — Patrick Rothfuss

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. — Charles Buxton

People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in. — Alexander Mamut

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist. — Albert Pike