Tane Mahuta Maori Quotes

#1. I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

Marjane Satrapi

#2. That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

George Bird Evans

#4. I find humming is very useful.

Elvis Costello

#5. But the price of freedom is blood, toil and tears. This consolation I have, however, that Africa never forgets. And these martyrs of freedom, these young and budding women, will be remembered and honoured when Africa comes into her own.

Benjamin Pogrund

#6. One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary

George Orwell

#7. A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

Philip Larkin

#8. Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way

Han Kang

#9. Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment

J.M. Ledgard

#10. Go to Darkness, human." "Go to hell, coyote,

Michael Grant

#11. If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.

Sara Sheridan

#12. I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.

Jon Skovron

#13. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...

Julia Hoban

#14. Pestom madam."
"Yes, Floote, that! Brilliant. Full of garlic." To illustrate her point, she took another mouthful before continuing. "Seems they put garlic in positively everything here. Absolutely fantastic.

Gail Carriger