Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

Barbara Kingsolver

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Barbara Kingsolver

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

Barbara Kingsolver

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Barbara Kingsolver

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Barbara Kingsolver

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

Barbara Kingsolver

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

Barbara Kingsolver

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Barbara Kingsolver

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

Babe Paley

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Bahman Ghobadi

You need a team that speaks your language.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Bailee Madison

I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

Bailey Chase

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Bai Ling

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Bai Ling

I think I'm like a free spirit.

Bai Ling

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

Bai Ling

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

Bai Ling

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

Bai Ling

I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.