Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

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PathMindLivingNeverArmsThrow

I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

Jesse L. Martin

GoodTimeLightGood ThingsWorld

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifePoetrySuperstition

You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.

Jen Lancaster

SleepNightWake UpYouGoUp

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

Rosemary Mahoney

WomanMeBoatLivingNothingRowing

In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.

Mike Bartlett

MomentReligionDinnerWritingPlay

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through?

Mike Rogers

LeaderLoyaltySmallSayingYou

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Dhani Jones

TravelBelieveSearchLoseI Believe

When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.

Dee Rees

MyselfNew YorkMeBeing MyselfNew

You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

David Shields

LifeThinkYouTroubleWriteWho

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

Bryan Burrough

LifePeopleRestPrisonFeelYou

I used to work out on an island called Martha's Vineyard. I ran a pizza oven, I caddied, I worked on a fishing boat, and life is very easy out there. It's a vacation lifestyle all the time.

Austin Stowell

LifeWorkTimeFishingVacation

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

Alfred Russel Wallace

TimeMatterFormModification

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