Tanya Beardsley Quotes

I glanced out of my window at the grime and decay of Temptation, comparing it to Shannon's golden world, good ole Willow's Corner. In her pricey neighborhood, red brick colonials stood tall, capped with a thick down of milk-white snow. Chimney smoke made the quiet setting look warm and friendly - like a f*cking Hallmark card. But I knew better. Behind those fancy doors, with their brass knockers and deceitful doormats that had the nerve to say, 'Welcome,' were the same vicious snobs who'd looked down their noses at me earlier." -- Trace Dawson, Within Temptation ~ Tanya Holmes

Going to tell us why you think so, Gunny?" "I expect the belief is based on years and years of experience combined with a number of subliminal clues that I'm not consciously aware of." "Gut feeling?" Mike asked in the stunned silence that followed her declaration. "Pretty much, yeah. ~ Tanya Huff

My daughter asked me what it's like to have children ... So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T ... ~ Tanya Masse

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. ~ Aubrey Beardsley

See my website, ffactor.com, for specific suitable cracker brands and other Miracle Carb-approved foods. ~ Tanya Zuckerbrot

Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets. ~ Tanya Masse

Stay HIGH on AWESOMENESS so reality cannot destroy you! ~ Tanya Masse

It is a great blow to the ego, Sssergeant, to dissscover that you are, after all, not unique." He looked up, his tongue flickering. "I am, however, mossstly recovered. ~ Tanya Huff

I feel something enter the room, coming in from the top right corner. I cannot see it but I know its there, plain as day. My real self recognizes the feeling, recognizes the place this being came from, where it lives. There are other realities that exist besides our own; it is foolish to think otherwise. The universe is conscious. This thing comes from the layers of energy beyond our physical perception. The place we go to after we die, the place we were before being conceived. These places holds us for millenia in Universe Time. We are on Earth and in flesh for only a moment. Before we are born, energy must be woven into spirit and then siphoned into a body. After we die the spirit must be consoled after the trauma of flesh and then unravelled back into energy. It feels good to remember this place, but the thing that has arrived here is not good. ~ Tanya Tagaq

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself. ~ Tanya Tucker

LIFE is what YOU make it. Make sure it's AWESOME. ~ Tanya Masse

When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit. ~ Tanya Thompson

At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me! ~ Tanya Tucker

Cause if you're happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay. ~ Tanya Davis

There is an inner beauty and outer beauty. Both have tremendous influence. ~ Tanya R. Liverman

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered ~ Tanya Anne Crosby

Fabulous and Fucked up. Absolutely right. It's called "Being Human". Let's celebrate that, not fear it. ~ Tanya Byron

OVERREACTING" sounds like "OVARYACTING" Coincidence? I think NOT!! ~ Tanya Masse

I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night. ~ Peter Beardsley

This is not the last time he will get himself in trouble with bravado that cannot be backed up. He ends up dying that way. ~ Tanya Tagaq

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? ~ Aubrey Beardsley

I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none. ~ Tanya Masse

Using poise is not being fake; it is being professional, strong, and composed. ~ Tanya R. Liverman

But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain."
"Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook. ~ Tanya Huff

She was his dawn of bliss
He was her dusk of wounds,
Each day they came up to
See and touch
They couldn't stay for long
But they looked perfect together ~ ~ Tanya Gambhir

Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. 'She's an expensive filly, with double standards,' he had said. Fozzy had not listened. ~ Tanya Thistleton

So maybe we are fearless. Fearless not in the fighting dragons sort of way, but in that way you can only be when you're seventeen and scared of everything and nothing, all at once. ~ Tanya Byrne

I'm a MAMA! I've got REACTIONS & REFLEXES faster than any speeding bullet! HUGS & KISSES more POWERFUL than any drug! EYES in the back of my head! The amazing ABILITY to find stuff out to protect what I LOVE!And the STRENGTH to carry the weight of the world on my shoulders to keep my children safe from harm! ~ Tanya Masse

Good afternoon, Gunnery Sargent."
"Any ideas…?"
Dr. Sloan turned slowly and stared up at Torren through narrowed eyes. "About what?"
"I'm sorry had you not noticed the birds?"
"Oh, ha!" Arms folded she resumed staring to the west. "I'm not doing anything. They just keep coming back."
"Maybe your jacket is…"
"…Is what? Stuffed with bird seed? Emitting matting coos on a frequency only these birds can hear? Looks like their big blue mother? You're so good at getting various and varying species to do what say, you tell them to shoo."
"Shoo?"
"Fine, pick a tougher word."
No longer trying to hide her smile, Torren leaned slightly forwards and said, "Scram."
The birds took off almost as one bird, their wings chopping at the air. ~ Tanya Huff

If THINKING about exercising, eating healthy and losing weight burned calories, I'd be a SUPERMODEL! ~ Tanya Masse

Death is really a matter of perspective. So many people say "sorry for your loss" when a special one dies, but I don't see it as a loss. You don't lose the person at all, you gain a guardian angel that will stay with you and watch over you and their loved ones for life. ~ Tanya Masse

love, be patient with me
as i shed this skin
as i lie old patterns at these feet
as i burn and sweat
as i'm fed by this stream
i can be fierce while this vulnerable
i can seem far away
as these wounds i lick
as i writher, moan, cry and hiss,
and awaken within this
river carrying me home
as i take in this last breath
generous was this passing death
praise be the person i was
as i gasp life into
the warrior
i am now. ~ Tanya Markul

We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us. ~ Tanya Masse

Although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales. ~ Tanya Huff

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way. ~ Tanya Tucker

Don't be afraid to write. I think a lot of writers of all ages have a fear that they aren't any good at writing. That fear is normal. I feel it. Most writers who care about what they are writing feel it. When you feel like you're not good enough, write anyway. It's just a pesky bug that's whispering lies. The best way to swat the bug is with your pen. ~ Tanya Anderson

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. ~ Tanya Davis

тот что нас не убивает нас не интересует. 'That which cannot kill us does not interest us.' Exhaling poison, he explains, 'Nice sentiment shared by thieves and Bratva. ~ Tanya Thompson

Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God."
Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?"
"What?"
"Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum. ~ Tanya Huff

No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found. ~ Tanya Masse

The foxes run. The foxes die. I mourn them, but I understand that there is danger in mourning for those who would not mourn for you in return. Empathy is for those who can afford it. Empathy is for the privileged. Empathy is not for Nature. ~ Tanya Tagaq

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive. ~ Tanya Huff

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got. ~ Tanya Tucker