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Donna Tartt Quotes

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Donna Tartt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 23, 1963

Topics

Children Time Observation More Same

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

John Gutfreund

Good Great Money People Like Very

If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.

John Ridley

Support White Want Race Try Limit

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

Soccer Mommy

Girl Me Guitar Play Never Nashville

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Ruth Ware

Friendship Me Writing Interesting

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

Michelle Bachelet

Family Education Women Children Food

I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.

Michael Ledeen

Think Rice Act I Think Inclined

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Lisa Ling

Respect Culture Better Elders Asian

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

Jonathan Sacks

Together Broken Place Burden Rights

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

Dick Dale

Mind Think You Mouth Argument Blood

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Donald Trump

Good Great Job People Think Feel

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Bruce Babbitt

Wilderness Mirrors Living Like Fact

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Norma Shearer

Woman Adventure Proud May One Thing