Looks Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

I don't look like who I am.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

— Barbara Kingsolver

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging…

— 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…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must…

— Barbara Kingsolver

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the…

— Barbara Kingsolver