Barbara Hall > Quotes

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”
― Barbara Hall

“You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”
― Barbara Hall

“And maybe that is where rhythm comes from, I think. Our earliest understanding of rhythm. The sound of our own breath, the beating of our own hearts.”
― Barbara Hall, The Music Teacher

“I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.”
― Barbara Hall, Tempo Change

“The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.”
― Barbara Hall, The Music Teacher

“I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.”
― Barbara Hall, Tempo Change

“The greatest stories come from trying to make your own contradictions meet and get along.”
― Barbara Hall

“[The brain] is just a landscape...We're Lewis and Clark. We have no idea what's going on in most of that terrain. It's wilderness, I'm telling you.

-Dr. David Sutton”
― Barbara Hall, Charisma

“¿Que quiere una mujer? Ella quieres ser respetada, que la escuches la entiendas, quiere flores, quiere reírse, quiere confiar en ti, no quiere leerte la mente, quiere ser valorada por quien es y en ocasiones ella solo quiere que te calles y dejes de arreglarlo todo. Joan of Arcadia”
― Barbara Hall

“Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.”
― Barbara Hall

“You believe you have no soul. That's a disorganized thought in my world.

-Sarah Lange to Dr. David Sutton”
― Barbara Hall, Charisma

“Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right.
-Sarah Lange”
― Barbara Hall, Charisma

“Lo scrittore è obbligato a guardare sotto ogni pietra. Può e dovrebbe rifiutare alcuni comportamenti o scelte nella sua vita personale. Ma non può fare a meno di contemplare l’intero spettro della condizione umana.”
― Barbara Hall

“Pensar que eres la peor persona del mundo es lo mismo que creer que eres la mejor. Te otorga un lugar en el universo que no te has ganado.”
― Barbara Hall

“Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.”
― Barbara Hall

“Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.”
― Barbara Hall