Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci -
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Adam McKay -
I believe in the free enterprise system.
Ralph Norman -
There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
-
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
Taylor Swift -
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
-
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
Wendy Davis -
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA twigs -
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
Victor Cruz -
People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
Eden Hazard
-
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Zac Goldsmith -
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
Javier Bardem -
Mrs Prentice: You put me in an impossible position.Nick: No position is impossible when you're young and healthy.
Joe Orton -
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Tom Stoppard -
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver