Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

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LifeLiveHopeYouDistanceAdmire

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton

GoodHomeLightMomAmericaYou

I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10. It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips... e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

Andrew Luck

InternetPhoneKnowNiceWayOld

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

John Lanchester

MeEconomicsQuestionsMoralMore

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

John Lasseter

GoodAloneGreatServiceStoryLook

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

Simon Newcomb

LightWorldWallOutsideWithinWho

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

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A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

Michael Steger

CarDayDrivePerfectGoOut

You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

Michelle Bachelet

BeachWalkSimpleYouDreamKnow

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Debra Winger

GoodMarriageHappyHappy Marriage

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

Clive Sinclair

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When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

Claire Danes

WorkMyselfResponsibilityIdentity

I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

Brian Greene

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