Quotes by Real God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real. Barbara Kingsolver starsrealanimal Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way. Barbara Kingsolver realwritingthinking Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. Barbara Kingsolver realsecretpast If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. Barbara Kingsolver realbreadart The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. Barbara Kingsolver griefrealair Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break. Barbara Kingsolver realanimalcountry I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. Barbara Kingsolver realwritingart I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters. Barbara Kingsolver realwritingschool I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death. Barbara Kruger photographyrealthinking Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. Barbara Kruger technologyrealmade ... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal. Barbara Kruger photographyrealneeds My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties. Barbara Lee partyrealbelieve In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution. Barbara Marx Hubbard futurerealtime Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which. Barbara Pym sunshinereallove Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. Barbara Sher realworryattitude In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them. Barbara Sher realheartthinking Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready. Barbara Sher ignorancerealcourage Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up. Barbara Sher realdreamjobs Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. Barbara Sher motivationrealleadership When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. Barbara Tuchman breaking-downgapsreal«7980818283848586878889»
