Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Deep
  • Darkness
  • Surface

• But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Darkness

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Politics
  • First
  • Darkness

• There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Shining

• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Names

• In the films I've done recently, I've been learning a little more about the side of myself that enjoys being a light. I remember when I used to dress in all black and you'd say. "Just be pretty, hold your head up, be proud. Be a pleasant person and don't cover yourself so much with darkness, your need to be a little crazy." Now I have nothing against anything I've been in before, because I love all sides of me, but I have been experimenting more with that lovely woman side. In this age of feminism, I would hate for the whole gentlemen and ladies things to be lost.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Done
  • Remember

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Age
  • Society
  • Science

• Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Light
  • Moments
  • Darkness

• Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Names
  • Affectionate
  • Turkeys

• I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

  

  Hafez
  • She
  • Fly
  • Bird

• I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

  

  Count Basie
  • Up
  • Business
  • Names

• Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sea

• I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

  

  William Wells Brown
  • Liberty
  • Names
  • Hunting

• Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the many lost hours. So while you still have time, seek to enrich your own spirits for the tomorrow which awaits you because, in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, it is of no use to retain the outward appearance of the splendor of all the empires of this world, if you maintain darkness within your heart.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • World
  • Heart
  • Remember

• We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Stories
  • Relationships
  • Pact

• We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Darkness
  • Names
  • Seekers