Barry Hannah Quotes

I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

Barry Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TeacherJoyHappyPeopleBe Happy

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

HappinessGreatTalentExecution

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Jen Lancaster

MusicTimeTravelSchoolMeWorld

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

Andrea Seigel

MeWritingStartBookThinkFeel

I use a Clarins sunscreen every day, even in winter; it's the secret to keeping beautiful skin even as you get older.

Jeanne Damas

WinterBeautifulDayYouSkinGet

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

Amanda de Cadenet

LifeWomenAgeThinkLearnLook

Motion is tranquility.

Stirling Moss

TranquilityMotion

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.

Maryanne Wolf

NatureLearningBrainThoughtLong

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

Lorene Scafaria

ThinkInterestingYouTableLittle

When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

Didier Sornette

PositiveGrowthTimeFeedbackMore

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

Deborah Moggach

LifeGenerationPossibleLuckyWhere

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.

Pim Fortuyn

EnlightenmentIslamThroughGone

I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.

Pranav Mistry

ScienceWorldThinkLivingFiction

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