Deborah Tannen Quotes

For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in any close relationship. Yet there is something special about sisters - specially gratifying and specially fraught.

Deborah Tannen

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RelationshipPeopleSaidSpecial

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

John Lasseter

TimeWaitingThoughtNobodyMore

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

John Jay Chapman

PastNew YorkPresentPowerfulNew

I never view myself as a leader.

Jeff Hardy

LeaderMyselfViewNever

I'm very food-motivated.

Stormy Daniels

Very

I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.

Simon Cowell

ChildrenFoodBookLibraryYouLook

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Mary Wesley

MarriagePersonKnowNeverGoing

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Michael Servetus

TruthOthersSeenErrorAgreeMust

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

Christiane Amanpour

PassionWarMeRoadPlanningHim

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

QualityYouFindUpTakeStuff

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Arthur Conan Doyle

NothingMorePolicemanThan

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Peter Lynch

NatureSucceedWorldDoingLongYou

On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.

Seth Shostak

RedWindSomeoneAttentionYouWill

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