Barry Hannah Quotes

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Barry Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1942 - March 1, 2010

Topics

LovePainJoyRightMiddleJust

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz

ArtEveryoneWins

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

John Barrowman

LearnYouWrongMove OnSomething

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

Jeremy Grantham

GoodPeopleSayingFactsYouKnow

That's all folks!

Mel Blanc

Folks

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Stefano Langone

LifeSongComebackMy LifeKidWere

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

Simon Cowell

LossYouKnowWeight LossEatMuch

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

Robert Darnton

CommunicationHistoryDisciplineBook

Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.

Rob Dyrdek

WorkYouPossibleAnythingWilling

I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

Mary Beard

WomenPowerHistoryLookingAction

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Lou Reed

BelieveSayWhySomethingBecause

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard

JealousyNegativeYouSatisfaction

If you were asked to go on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football Club would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred odd years of history, thousands of matches, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.

Jasper Carrott

HistoryFootballCityMeStartYou

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