Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

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• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Job
  • Fun

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Best
  • Poverty

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • World
  • Reading

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• Despite all its bluster about innovation, Apple has become a copycat, and not even a good one.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Good
  • Innovation

• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • Work

• I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • English
  • Distance

• If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • People
  • Energy
  • Health

• Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.

  

  George Osborne
  • Up
  • True
  • Independent

• Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want