Barry Unsworth Quotes

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

Barry Unsworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 10, 1930 - June 4, 2012

Topics

DailyPastLieWaitPresentYou

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Jim Mattis

HistoryPastYourselfPeopleHelp

After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

Jim Ryun

GovernmentChallengesWorldNewMeet

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

John Callahan

TechnologyBeachPressureTransition

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Johan Huizinga

FunnyAmericaInnocenceYouSunday

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

Maureen O'Hara

GodGreenThoughtWalkingValley

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

Meryl Streep

BelieveVoiceEnoughYouFeeling

I have no idea who first coined the word 'Abenomics.' It was not my original term for the set of anti-deflation, growth-promotion policies I am now pursuing.

Shinzo Abe

I AmNowFirstOriginalIdeaSet

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Tori Amos

GoodFunMeSometimesAlwaysMost

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Miguel de Unamuno

WorldWayConsciousnessGiveOnly

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

Michelle Dockery

FunnyMeAlwaysSeeSideThings

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

GoodCarDriveNormalThingsRead

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

Jay Parini

WorkSimplePeopleWell-BeingYoung

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