Barbara Fields Quotes

#1. You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Reggie Jackson

#2. In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

Barbara Demick

#3. The road to India, the Suez Canal, the oil fields of Mosul, the whole complex of political and strategic requirements that drew Britain into Palestine in 1918, began with the enterprise of the Elizabethan merchant adventurers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Chris Van Allsburg

#5. That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

Barbara Corcoran

#6. You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

R. Kelly

#7. A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

Isaac Mizrahi

#8. I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

Anne Tyler

#9. Good dog,' she said, stoking his head. 'Good sweet dog.' That was one of the great things about dogs. They always loved you no matter what was going on.

R.L. Stine

#10. I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

Barbara Brennan

#11. What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler

#12. Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

Edward Somers

#13. When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Randy Jackson

#14. Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.

Sylvia Iparraguirre

#15. This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. Barbara had really missed her calling. She should have been a gynecologist. Nothing pleased her more than having her face between another woman's legs.

Elysia N. Fields

#17. If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

#18. If you ever want to feel like you're on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you're being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.

John Scalzi

#19. I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

Gary Numan

#20. When your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Barbara De Angelis

#21. I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

Barbara Hambly