Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Better
  • Especially
  • Spaces

• Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • Fun

• We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

  

  Charles Hermite

• I'm actually introverted and shy.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • Pretty
  • Sibling

• Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Music

• I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.

  

  Cliff Sloan
  • Up
  • Done
  • Coffee

• Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Psychology

• I'm not involved on any social media; it's really not my style.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Style

• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

  

  Jessie J

• My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • Job

• We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.

  

  Frans de Waal

• I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Work
  • Done

• Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Strong
  • Wind
  • Hunting

• For almost a century after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Court followed this narrow reading of the Equal Protection Clause and refused to use it to stop other types of discrimination. For example, in 1875, two years after the Slaughter-House Cases, the Supreme Court held that it was constitutional to deny women the right to vote.

  

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Vote
  • Protection
  • Court

• I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

  

  Marsha Thomason

• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  

  Nancy Bird Walton
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Fence

• The scariest thing about distance is you don’t know if they’ll miss you or forget about you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Forget
  • Distance
  • Miss

• I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Intimacy
  • Miss
  • Ministry