Tanka's Quotes

#1. Wakan Tanka never stops creating.

Archie Fire Lame Deer

#2. Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax?

Christopher Higgs

#3. I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

John Steinbeck

#4. There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world ...

William Gaddis

#5. While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

Benazir Bhutto

#6. Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

Lucy Larcom

#7. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Luther Standing Bear

#8. Right here, you're killing me.

Laura Kinsale

#9. I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

Jennifer Nettles

#10. I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan ... They need to live their lives as well.

Jeremy Lin

#11. You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.

Will Smith

#12. God's mapmakers rely on Christ not cheap human tricks, to draw people to the truth.

Eric Ludy

#13. Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

Colleen Hoover

#15. Tanka
Black-and-white Holsteins
Crowd downfield at feeding time,
Mingling their blotches.
It is like ice breaking up
In a dark, swollen river.

Richard Wilbur

#16. Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

Craig McDonald

#17. He followed me around the edge of the bed. I've been told my lips can make a girl forget just about anything. You should try it out.

Jennifer L. Armentrout