Top 29 Yarbrough Quotes
#1. Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity ... Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.
Ron Rash
#2. Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.
Richard Russo
#3. Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.
John Grisham
#4. Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
Jill McCorkle
#5. The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco.
Mary Doria Russell
#7. Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
Cesar Chavez
#8. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.
Tim Yarbrough
#9. Do not try to dress for the other women who will verbally and otherwise judge your appearance. Their opinion doesn't matter.
Gary Yarbrough
#10. I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
#11. Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.
Steve Yarbrough
#12. A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all - and more amusing.
C.S. Lewis
#13. I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.
Brandon Jennings
#14. if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word "no" & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. - "no" is short for "fuck off."
Amanda Lovelace
#15. No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.
-General Wedge Antilles
Aaron Allston
#16. Sorry. I'm too much man for half a woman.
C.D. Reiss
#17. Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.
Dolly Parton
#18. I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
Eve Plumb
#19. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#20. Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death, and all floods start a movement that cycle from scouring to sediment building. The same sediments that build also bury.
Paul H. Yarbrough
#21. Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!
JR
#22. I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.
David S.Goyer
#23. Every place is different, but every place is the same, because you carry yourself with you wherever you go.
Steve Yarbrough
#24. There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
Tom Hardy
#25. The goal of education by the grace of God is to create self-governing people who live under the Law of God for the glory of Christ.
Tim Yarbrough
#26. I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.
Steve Yarbrough
#28. If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
Tim Yarbrough
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