Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • History
  • Marriage

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Real

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

  

  Max Apple

• In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Power
  • Basketball

• I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Boy

• I need the lightness of children's lit.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Children
  • Lit

• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Job

• The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • World
  • Done

• 'I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.'

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Hope
  • Soul

• I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Film
  • Television

• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Writing
  • May

• If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Hair
  • Greatness
  • Shine

• There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Teaching
  • Actually
  • Decoration

• I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • America

• Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • Good
  • Light
  • Thoughts

• It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Spring Day
  • Blue Sky
  • White clouds

• We (My Chemical Romance) didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Step
  • Next
  • Level

• Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Prayer
  • God Is
  • Midst