Tatar Quotes

#1. He must have some Tartar in him, don't you think?" "I have no idea," Kate said. "Or is it 'Tatar.

Anne Tyler

#2. I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.

Kate Bernheimer

#3. I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian.

Ildar Abdrazakov

#4. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Maria Tatar

#5. I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

Edgar Mitchell

#6. Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan

#7. I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

Patricia Highsmith

#8. It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Maria Tatar

#9. Night and day, you are the one.

Cole Porter

#10. Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

Maria Tatar

#11. The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as the culture of childhood ... they capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience

Maria Tatar

#12. I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Brian Skerry

#13. Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

Maria Tatar

#14. You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.

James Ryan Daley

#15. Secrets and lies ... Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives.
To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the
situation.

Lacey Thorn

#16. The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

Maria Tatar

#17. Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

George Herbert

#18. nevermore will i lie in the wake of your ambivalence

A.P. Sweet

#19. So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

E. E. Cummings

#20. God's followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan's lies.

Billy Graham

#21. Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

Renee Ahdieh

#22. I wondered if there were any rooms in all of Thorne Abbey that wouldn't leave me gawking in wonder at the doorway.

Rachel Hawkins