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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• Losing
• Tradition

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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
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• 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
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Bad
  • Working
  • Considered

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• 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
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• 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
  • World
  • Car
  • Chicago

• 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
  • People
  • War
  • Nature

• 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
  • Important
  • Long
  • Innovation

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• 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
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Think

• The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Now

• Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Children
  • Write

• 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
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• 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
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• 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
  • Family
  • System
  • Debt

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Sad

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

  

  Tessanne Chin
  • Successful
  • Genuine

• 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
  • Community
  • Danger
  • Losing