Derek Tangye famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a quiet sea. True that at times his head, because of his youth, looked scraggy, even his body sometimes looked scraggy, but suddenly for some reason like the change of light, or of mood, he looked his potential. This was going to be a champion cat.
-- Derek Tangye

#Beautiful #Cat #Autumn
A cat has to be in a very bad mood if a human cannot coax him to purr.
-- Derek Tangye

#Cat #Bad Mood #Mood
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
-- Derek Tangye

#Cat #Lap #Sitting
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of personal distress is so soothing because one has the ease of knowing that one's secrets will not be repeated to anyone. Yet there are those who are horrified that an animal can be a more reliable part of one's world than that of the human world.
-- Derek Tangye

#Animal #Knowing #Talking
We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait, and let fate provide the answer.
-- Derek Tangye

#Memories #Fate #Years
The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.
-- Derek Tangye

#Morning #Sadness #Years
The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.
-- Derek Tangye

#Art #News #Journalism

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Derek Tangye famous quotes

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