A Tan Quotes

#1. It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Amy Tan

#2. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Amy Tan

#3. I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents' promiise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing ... But later, she will forget her promise. She will forget she had a grandmother.

Amy Tan

#4. When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

Amy Tan

#5. My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#6. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. When I say natural death, I mean it was a natural death for Jimmy Finn.

Mark Twain

#7. CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..

Sean Paul

#8. Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

Bill Fitch

#9. My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Amy Tan

#10. I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are.

Natasha Leggero

#11. My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Amy Tan

#12. People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#13. Surfing is not my strong point. And ... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Lori Loughlin

#14. I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

Captain Beefheart

#15. I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea
he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

Amy Schumer

#16. One question remained to me. "If a higher level of bujutsu involves fighting with the mind, what then is the very highest level?" He closed his eyes for a while, seeing things he would never show me. "That," he said, "would be never to fight at all.

Tan Twan Eng

#17. Below these words was the garden's name in English: EVENING MISTS. I felt I was about to enter a place that existed only in the overlapping of air and water, light and time.

Tan Twan Eng

#18. Her eyes
lined with black makeup
stared blankly at the ceiling; and her tan was obviously sprayed on since her skin had a healthy apricot glow even though the top of her head was missing.

Donna Tartt

#19. There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

Gabrielle Union

#20. Because your master doesn't control you anymore. He hasn't for years. You're a free bird, Lucky. You are responsible for all your actions now.

Jim Tan

#21. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

Amy Tan

#22. (Note to anyone considering joining a class: there is no need to turn up in full Strictly Come Dancing salsa outfit including fake tan. Everyone just wears jeans. Briefly awkward.)

Miranda Hart

#23. Calling MacKenzie a mean girl is an understatement. She's a cobra with hoop earrings, blond hair extensions, and a spray-on tan.

Rachel Renee Russell

#24. I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
-Lindo

Amy Tan

#25. I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.

Dov Davidoff

#26. I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

Anika Noni Rose

#27. I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

Anton Du Beke

#28. in the crook of her elbow as she went. Above her, over an apartment building and a tavern, she saw the expanse of a large square building with a flat roof and a single cylinder chimney. It was a tan-brick warehouse with dark broken windows. An abandoned bird's

Charlie N. Holmberg

#29. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Tan

#30. I learned not to go in the sun early on in my career. A tan lasts for a week or two before it fades, and the sun is so damaging - it's not worth it. I put sunscreen on my kids every day before school and before they play outside. They know the routine.

Heidi Klum

#31. I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

Karyn Parsons

#32. I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't.
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Amy Tan

#33. The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

Lisa Birnbach

#34. Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Nguyen Tan Dung

#35. We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.

Tan Twan Eng

#36. I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

Tony Tan

#37. I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.

Marilyn Monroe

#38. Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Amy Tan

#39. The man looked hot in his jersey, sexy as hell in a pair of
jeans and goddamn mouth-watering in nothing but his tan. In a business suit? He looked utterly fuckable.

Amy Andrews

#40. I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.

Amy Tan

#41. If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

Amy Tan

#42. I heard two tan, tall people get out of the elevator, having a passionate argument.

Stikki Minaj

#43. My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

Amy Tan

#44. Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Steven Morrissey

#45. I love being outdoors and think a tan is very sexy. I'll lie out on white towels strewn with pillows. I don't like to hide under hats. If anyone knows about spending lots of the time on the beach, with kids and dogs in tow, it's me.

Pamela Anderson

#46. in a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family

Amy Tan

#47. How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

Tony Tan

#48. There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

Amy Tan

#49. With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan,
Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that I'd thought about him in his underwear.
Much.

Chris Cannon

#50. The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Whitey Ford

#51. He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.

John Connolly

#52. We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

Vincent Tan

#53. The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it's the globalization of fine art through the Internet - it's easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.

Shaun Tan

#54. The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease.

Jeff Deck

#55. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

Amy Tan

#56. Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Amy Tan

#57. Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Julian Casablancas

#58. When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

Shaun Tan

#59. When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours.

Amy Tan

#60. Anthony Robbins quotes is, "What's talked about is a dream. What's envisioned is exciting. What's planned becomes possible. What's scheduled is real.

Shirley Tan

#61. On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues ... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

Dan Feuerriegel

#62. I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

Shaun Tan

#63. A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

Amy Tan

#64. It's June and the city is ripe with meaningless fecal heat. It will be a different kind of hot in LA, the kind that made the Beach Boys all tan and giddy, a heat that doesn't harass you in the shade.

Caroline Kepnes

#65. I pray Cardiff get back to the Premier League. If I sell Cardiff, I will buy another club in the U.K. I have a club in Sarajevo. The fans are fantastic. The people who run the club are incredible. They really motivate me. I'm looking at another club in Europe and then the MLS.

Vincent Tan

#66. And it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth.

Amy Tan

#67. Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you.

Mark Twain

#68. Yes, I know most of you can tell the difference between the truth and a lie, but a lie repeated often enough is easily mistaken for the truth. A falsehood left unrefuted in time becomes a fact. I tell you, the tongue is mightier than the sharpest talon.

Jim Tan

#69. Was this part of the process of growing up, that we finally noticed the people closest to us in a different, clearer light?

Tan Twan Eng

#70. Some element in the air between us changed, as though a wind that had been blowing gently had come to an abrupt stillness.

Tan Twan Eng

#71. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

Shaun Tan

#72. Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Amy Tan

#73. I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence.

Nguyen Tan Dung

#74. If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.

Amy Tan

#75. There are some people...who might feel that such practices are misguided, like trying to wield heaven's powers on earth. And yet it was only in the carefully planned and created garden of Yugiri that I had found a sense of order and calm and even, for a brief moment of time, forgetfulness.

Tan Twan Eng

#76. For her and Nurul merely to share a meal cooked in their own kitchen was a triumph; to wake up together each morning a luxury.

Jolene Tan

#77. Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all. I didn't have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.

Ronda Rousey

#78. Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.

Ryan Hansen

#79. She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
- Beau

Abbi Glines

#80. Never show a weapon before you have to use it

Amy Tan

#81. A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.

Tan Twan Eng

#82. When we do 'Sports Illustrated,' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color.

Chrissy Teigen

#83. I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

Amy Tan

#84. Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

Georgia Jagger

#85. I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.

Pearl Tan

#86. Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

Leonard Cohen

#87. That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Amy Tan

#88. I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Amy Tan

#89. Feet pue tan!" she shouted.
Ty cleared his throat, looking at Zane wryly. "She just called me a goddamned son of a bitch."
"I like her," Zane responded.

Abigail Roux

#90. Her honey-blonde hair is strewn across her face as she sways her head. She's working a red sequined bikini separated by a tan, flat stomach, and a butterfly tattoo resting on her left hip. Her legs are clad in black fishnets that run into a pair of white-heeled boots - still a knockout.

Kevin James Moore

#91. He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.

Amy Tan

#92. I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

Nicole Polizzi

#93. Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.

Amy Tan

#94. That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

Amy Tan

#95. On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.

Tan Twan Eng

#96. A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

Amy Tan

#97. There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.

Francine Pascal

#98. Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness.

Amy Tan

#99. When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

Amy Tan

#100. Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.

Amy Tan