Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.Barbara Brown Taylor
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
Hansie Cronje -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet -
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Quincy Jones -
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel -
The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
Vicki Lawrence -
When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger -
I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
Val McDermid -
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
Hanoi Hannah -
'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
Samira Wiley -
The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered
Barbara Castle -
What! from his helpless Creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd - Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer - Oh, the sorry trade!
Omar Khayyam -
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Bob Dylan -
What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent.
Bertrand Russell
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
Manmohan Singh -
Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.
Rick Renzi -
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
Anthony Doerr -
I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
David Mackay -
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
Barbara Brown Taylor