Barry Hannah Quotes
Collection of top 40 famous quotes about Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Barry Hannah quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
— Russell Smith
Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
— Elliott Abrams
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
— Barry Hannah
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
— Raymond Queneau
the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.
— Jeff VanderMeer
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
— Barry Hannah
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
— Barry Hannah
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you ... they're a little away from you.
— Barry Hannah
I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.
— Barry Hannah
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
— Barry Hannah
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
— Barry Hannah
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
— Barry Hannah
Love and despair go hand in hand.
— Barry Hannah
The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
— Barry Hannah
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is ... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
— Barry Hannah
I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"
— Barry Hannah
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
— Aeschylus
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
— Barry Hannah
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
— Barry Hannah
Ring!" he shrieked at the vapid instrument.
— Barry Hannah
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
— Barry Hannah
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
— Barry Hannah
Literature is the history of the soul.
— Barry Hannah
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
— Richard Attenborough
The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.
— Barry Hannah
You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.
— Barry Hannah
