Bob Goff Quotes

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

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• There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Women
  • Yourself

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Art
  • Always

• London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • School
  • Cool
  • London

• I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

  

  Magdalena Frackowiak
  • Like
  • Look
  • Makeup

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Nothing
  • Being
  • Wrong

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Want

• Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Job
  • Process

• You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Team
  • Smart
  • End

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Home

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Eye
  • Moon
  • Animals

• Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Christian
  • Belief
  • Fiction

• All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • People
  • Society
  • Engagement

• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Journey
  • Search
  • Cells

• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

  

  John Ridley
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Know
  • Beauty