Sam Tanenhaus Quotes

#1. I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'

Cody Simpson

#2. By changing your direction, you can always change your destination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. I find personalized search convenient - I read stories on my Facebook feed, my Twitter feed, daily email services, and my iPhone's Flipboard app, and would love to be able to focus my searches on just those particular services.

Marvin Ammori

#4. Tradition maintained that Rome had been founded in 753 BC. For the Romans this was Year One and subsequent events were formally dated as so many years from the 'foundation of the city' (ab urbe condita).

Adrian Goldsworthy

#5. It is hardly a coincidence that the cadences of Chambers's HUAC testimony should anticipate the prose of Witness. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had given him his true voice ...

Sam Tanenhaus

#6. Melissa looked at her. "It's a meeting with a killer, Grandma," she said. "You don't have to worry about manners." "You

E.J. Copperman

#7. We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Sam Tanenhaus

#8. You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

Hugh Hefner

#9. In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Sam Tanenhaus

#10. I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.

Kathleen Kennedy

#11. To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Maimonides

#12. How come we got the grumpy boat of bandy-legged Puritans? How come we didn't get the Italian party boat with the cappuccino makers and the gelato machine? That was the sexy boat, man.

Greg Proops

#13. Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy.

Barbara Vine

#14. URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.

Ashley D. Wallis

#16. Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.

Robert H. Schuller

#17. Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Sam Tanenhaus

#18. The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess,

Sam Tanenhaus

#19. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.

Tana French

#20. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell