Barry Lopez Quotes

My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

Barry Lopez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1945

Topics

PeopleThinkDoingPlanetAtmosphere

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

John Glenn

DayQuarterCenturyAvoid

I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.

Melissa McCarthy

FeelLuckyStickGotI Feel Like

I think I've been pretty fortunate.

Robert Picardo

ThinkPrettyFortunateBeenI Think

My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.

John Hickenlooper

FatherTableHandleTaughtFirearms

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

John Schneider

WorkGoodHusbandFairQuiteBit

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

John Shelton Reed

IdentityGroupSenseEthnicLike

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

TemptationPersonWeakPleasureWho

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.

Sophie McShera

WeirdCinemaPartyStreetPopcorn

Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.

Mary Pilon

SportsThinkLanguagePoliticalYou

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

AttitudeMotivationDoingYouWell

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

Donald Miller

LifeStoryLife Is AYouGoWant

No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.

William M. Daley

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