Tate Quotes

#1. Speed masks accuracy

Derek Tate

#2. I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Allen Tate

#3. Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.

Harold Lloyd

#4. Whose SUV is this?" I asked once we were out of Carnal.
"Mine." He answered.
I looked at him. "You drive a Harley."
"Not big on puttin' bad guys on the back of my bike when I hunt them down, Ace. Fucks with my street cred.

Kristen Ashley

#5. So what if my life isn't turning out exactly the way I'd planned? It's not ruined, it'll just be different.

Katherine Allred

#6. When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.

James Tate

#7. As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with

Colleen Hoover

#8. I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

Sharon Tate

#9. For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ...

Allen Tate

#10. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.

Sharon Tate

#11. Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.

Allen Tate

#12. You were never clingy or a nuisance, Tate. The day you moved in next door I thought you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I fucking loved you.

Penelope Douglas

#13. You can't be with him, Tate. You're a part of me, you belong with me.

Stylo Fantome

#14. Naked and fully aroused, they were both clearly ready to go, and Tate couldn't stop himself from spitting in his palm and starting to really jerk himself off. "You dirty fucker,

Ella Frank

#15. Love isn't always pretty, Tate. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost you heart somewhere along the way

Colleen Hoover

#16. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Jeffrey Tate

#17. We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Sharon Tate

#18. What are we, if we don't have games?"


"Something else.

Stylo Fantome

#19. 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

Tate Donovan

#20. Miles," I say with a smile, "you're looking at me like you fell in love with me." He shakes his head. "I didn't fall in love with you, Tate. I flew." He

Colleen Hoover

#21. The poet is he who fights on the passionate
Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
Is defeated it is hard to say who wins ...

Allen Tate

#22. Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

Miesha Tate

#23. Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

James Tate

#24. I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.

Catherine Tate

#25. William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod,
Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:
'The nakedness of woman is the work of God',
Or that title
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Allen Tate

#26. Stop thinking so much. Tell me, what do you want?" Logan held his breath as he waited for Tate's frank response.
"You. Everything else aside, I still want you.

Ella Frank

#27. Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot ...

Allen Tate

#28. Hmm," Logan hummed in his ear. "You don't taste like a cherry anymore."
Tate turned his head on the pillow. "A cherry? I don't - "
"Yep," Logan interrupted, kissing his cheek. "I popped it, sucked on the seed, then licked it all up, and made it mine.

Ella Frank

#29. My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Sharon Tate

#30. The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Jeffrey Tate

#31. Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:
For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

Allen Tate

#32. My darling boy whom I shall never know,
My son, I love you in my deepest fears ...

Allen Tate

#33. Tate grabbed me, hugging me so hard, I knew I'd have bruises. He was probably unaware of it, not having had much time to get used to his new strength.
I pushed at him, "Tate ... you're squeezing me too hard."
He let go of me so fast I almost staggered. "Oh Christ, I can't do anything right!

Jeaniene Frost

#34. This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.

Victor Gischler

#35. I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Jeffrey Tate

#36. I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Catherine Tate

#37. In case I get busy in there and don't say it, thank you." "For?" Tate asked as his eyes softened. Logan squeezed his fingers, and as they started walking inside, he answered, "Always being willing to try.

Ella Frank

#38. Another reason to watch him avidly for he might pull himself out of
the pool, his whole body slick and those shorts plastered on him was not a sight to see. It was a
sight to prove there was a God and that God might just be Tate.

Kristen Ashley

#39. This isn't high school," I said, eyeing him playfully. "You're way out of your depth.

Penelope Douglas

#40. My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

Tate Donovan

#41. When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.

James Tate

#42. I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.

Larenz Tate

#43. I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

James Tate

#44. Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.

Joe Dunthorne

#45. If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other people do it because they haven't got kids and they've nowhere else to be. But because I have, I don't feel like that.

Catherine Tate

#46. I love you", he whispered. "You'll have the words every day for the rest of our lives.

Katherine Allred

#47. I'm the only one for you, just me. You're my bad girl. No one else's.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#48. But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Allen Tate

#49. Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

Catherine Tate

#50. He is being nibbled to death by ducks.

--More Later, Less the Same

James Tate

#51. Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tate's hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, "How full was that?"

Tate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. "Unopened. Why?

Ella Frank

#52. And Laurie was Tate's Elise. He had Jonas, so she wasn't his everything, but that didn't mean she didn't make up half his world. Once half of your world was torn from you, you could live to be a hundred and never build it back up. Never.

Kristen Ashley

#53. Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

Tate Donovan

#54. Jesus Christ, Tate, you're staring at his damn crotch!

Colleen Hoover

#55. The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Allen Tate

#56. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

Allen Tate

#57. I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

Tate Donovan

#58. I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Sharon Tate

#59. 'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.

Larenz Tate

#60. When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

Tate Donovan

#61. It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Jim Carroll

#62. I have felt darkness lead me by the hand
Over the hill to greet the singing dawn ...

Allen Tate

#63. For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

Allen Tate

#64. You love my teeth!" she hurled at him.
"Told you once, told you a million times, Neet, no man likes a woman's teeth scrapin' his dick. Christ, agony, somethin' you're good at dishin' out in a variety of ways." -Tate

Kristen Ashley

#65. When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Catherine Tate

#66. As he drifted off to sleep, Tate felt for the very first time that he was exactly where he was supposed to be, and he didn't care what anyone else thought.

Ella Frank

#67. Of course. I died today, and now I'm going to fight aliens with a light saber. Maybe after that we can look for mermaids. Or unicorns."
"No," he says. "Just aliens."
Was that the barest hint of humour in his tone?

Eve Silver

#68. Tate, I can't - " He cut me off. "Buck.

Kristen Ashley

#69. I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

Drew Barrymore

#70. No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

Catherine Tate

#71. Anger begins with madness and ends with regret

Susie Tate

#72. Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate)
I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Kim Cash Tate

#74. I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

James McAvoy

#75. I thought I heard the dark pounding its head
On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

Allen Tate

#76. Nope, but somehow, I think I'd move bodies night and day for you, Tate McKenna.

Lily Paradis

#77. What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Allen Tate

#78. There's lots of bounty hunters, Laurie, there's even one on TV. He can delegate ," she said like Tate worked in an office with a bunch of bounty hunters who got a call then said, "I'll go," or "You go," or "No, you go," or "Butch is up next, he'll go.

Kristen Ashley

#79. Time travel is a fantasy...isn't it? Not anymore!

Tammy Tate

#80. But I have a gut feeling on this and it's not the oh-look-it's-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#81. There's something about you," Tate tried to explain as he traced his fingers along his jaw. "In the way you are. It pulls me in, Logan. I can't imagine knowing you and not feeling it.

Ella Frank

#82. Having gray hair doesn't matter
but having gray matter matters.

James Tate

#83. I wanted to save her. Took me all these years to figure it out, but even back then, I wanted to be her prince on a white horse.

Stylo Fantome

#84. Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction."
I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.

Jeaniene Frost

#85. I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world ... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Sharon Tate

#86. Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

Tate Hallaway

#87. What was I saying? An Egyptian king
Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

Allen Tate

#88. Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Allen Tate

#89. Dust is watching life's talk show.

James Tate

#90. Cocksucker! You're a fucking Cocksucker, Grif! My Cocksucker!

Joseph Lance Tonlet

#91. Have to say, it takes balls to show up where you're not wanted, so maybe it isn't such a surprise that Tate likes me after all. Your pair's almost as big as mine.

Ella Frank

#92. I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Catherine Tate

#93. I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#94. If you don't hurry up and suck my dick - " "What? You gonna walk out of here?" Logan narrowed his eyes on Tate's juicy mouth, and thought, You sexy fucking cock tease. "I

Ella Frank

#95. Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
And I must think a little of the past:
When I was ten I told a stinking lie
That got a black boy whipped ...

Allen Tate

#96. 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.

Larenz Tate

#97. Does every word that comes out of your mouth have to do with sex?"
Logan smirked against Tate's mouth. "Usually, eighty/twenty, but with you, it seems more ninety-eight/two.

Ella Frank

#98. For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

Tate Reeves

#99. The more you embrace change, though, the easier it gets.

Penelope Douglas

#100. I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

Larenz Tate