Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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The world is too violent right now.
Jackie Chan
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Finn Wittrock
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
Malcolm Campbell
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow
After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
Nancy Gibbs
Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
Adam D'Angelo
I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!'
Lake Bell
Endangered species are our friends.
Yao Ming
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
Ian McShane
The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated
Taliesin
И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.
H. P. Lovecraft
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
Ralph Ellison
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
Karan Johar
It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
Ha-Joon Chang
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
Patricia Marx
I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.
F.S. Flint
So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
Barbara Brown Taylor
