Top 100 Anne Quotes
#2. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Anne Lamott
#3. Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
Anne Rice
#4. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.
Anne Hathaway
#6. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#8. There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
Anne Rice
#9. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.
Anne Carson
#10. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
Anne Frank
#11. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.
Anne Gracie
#12. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#13. I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
Anne Lamott
#14. A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.
Anne Frank
#15. she seemed to me an intriguing soul clothed
Anne Rice
#16. 'She's an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.
Anne Rice
#18. I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
Anne Campbell
#20. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.
Anne Lamott
#21. True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way.
Julie-Anne
#23. Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.
Anne Hathaway
#25. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Anne Lamott
#26. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!
Anne Frank
#27. I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
Anne Tyler
#28. She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.
Anne Perry
#29. And getting licked by someone furry wasn't threatening but being kissed by the non furred male was, which made sense when the furry and non furred were the same person. Wolf.
Anne Bishop
#30. If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.
Julie Anne Peters
#31. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
Anne Rice
#32. For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.
Anne Waldman
#33. I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
Anne Tyler
#35. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
[Meditations Divine and Moral]
Anne Bradstreet
#36. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.
Anne Leonard
#37. Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
Anne Enright
#38. I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
#39. I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.
Anne Fontaine
#40. What need for feathers now? What need to confirm their loss? While the womb-red sky swelled with the promise of tomorrow, and he rode the warm, crimson currents, skimming, wheeling and gliding.
Georgina Anne Taylor
#41. Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]
I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.
Anne Lister
#42. That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.
Anne Rice
#43. All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.
Anne Sexton
#45. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Anne Lamott
#46. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.
Anne Frank
#47. I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
Anne Lamott
#48. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#49. I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
Anne Lamott
#50. You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
Anne Hathaway
#51. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#52. I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
#53. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#55. Nothing wrong with the way your mother looks. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, and every hour in between, she looks just fine.
Anne Bishop
#56. I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.
Anne Fadiman
#57. His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.
Anne Rice
#58. Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
Anne Fine
#59. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.
Anne Rice
#60. Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#61. I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#62. She'd rinsed and dried the romaine lettuce with paper towels.
Anne Rice
#63. The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.
Anne Hathaway
#64. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.
Anne Rice
#65. A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
Anne Truitt
#66. He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger.
Julie Anne Long
#68. Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#69. You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.
Anne Rice
#70. I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
Anne Taintor
#71. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Anne Rice
#72. But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.
Anne Bronte
#73. I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?
Anne Perry
#74. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
Anne Fortier
#76. There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.
Anne Enright
#78. Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
Anne Waldman
#79. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender.
Anne Rice
#80. I'm worthless," Lionheart says. "I couldn't save her. I couldn't redeem my honor." "You never can," the Prince replies. He takes Lionheart by the shoulders and forces him to sit up, to face him. "But do you think my grace insufficient to forgive you?
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#81. My new world is etched in diamonds and sealed in gold, drowning in pretension.
Dawn Ius
#82. That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#83. I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
Anne Enright
#84. Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.
Lydia Leonard
#86. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
Anne Fadiman
#87. When I'm invisible I don't have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet.
Cecily Anne Paterson
#88. My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#89. If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
Anne Archer
#90. Tis the gift to be simple ... 'Tis the gift to be free ...
Anne Rice
#91. When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she turned to it and opened her bodice, letting it caress and kiss her breasts, for she never knew when it might be him, and still she wanted nothing more than to please him utterly.
Elliot Mabeuse
#93. Her hands reach out for intangible dreams as dust motes dance in the spectrum of light across one corner of the room.
Tracey-anne McCartney
#94. Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges
Anne Tyler
#96. Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37
Anne Graham Lotz
#97. Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
Anne Michaels
#98. And every moment one expects the sky to fling a barrage from clouds so leaden they hang low across the city roofs and drown the horizon.
Anne Perry
#99. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.
Anne Osterlund
#100. I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.
Anne Hathaway
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