Red Tree Shaun Tan Quotes

#1. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey MacKay

#2. Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.
The thousandth time may prove the charm.

Robert Frost

#3. We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot.

Joanne Froggatt

#5. We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.

Samuel Marsden

#6. Shadows celebrate sunshine
Lift the gloom of those who pine.
Leave a message to emulate
Alter and adapt willingly.

Balroop Singh

#7. You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Patricia Wentworth

#8. Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

#9. A word drops into the mist
like a child's ball into high grass
where it remains seductively
flashing and glinting until
the gold bursts are revealed to be
simply field buttercups.
Word/mist, word/mist: thus it was with me.

Louise Gluck

#10. If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

Marisa Miller

#11. Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

#12. We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.

Biz Stone

#13. The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

Wright Morris

#14. In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.

Warren Ellis

#15. There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary
like a red tree growing suddenly in a room
although this does not make them any less real.

Shaun Tan

#16. ... praise does not make anything better or worse.

Marcus Aurelius