Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

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• In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• Psychiatry causes so much death.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Death
  • Causes
  • Psychiatry

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Golf

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Women
  • Pretty

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Food
  • Safety

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Two
  • Unity
  • Sides

• My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
  • More

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music

• Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Option

• I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

  

  Kesha
  • People
  • Funny
  • Party

• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Love
  • Sad
  • Glorious

• We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Great
  • American

• To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Way
  • Christian
  • Jesus