Top 100 Anne Quotes
#1. I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.
Alice Steinbach
#2. Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#3. Hey, you were into him for over two years. I'm allowed to feel a little vulnerable and insecure about the fuckface. Stop trying to stunt my emotional growth, Anne.
Kylie Scott
#4. Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.
Meg Ryan
#5. I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.
Christina Hendricks
#6. Everyone's path to here is unique, Anne. It's what you do from here that counts.
Catherine McKenzie
#7. Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
John F. Kennedy
#8. I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
Anne F. Beiler
#9. The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes
Bonnie Greer
#10. People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.
Kevin Brockmeier
#11. My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland
#12. Give him to me," said Anne. "Not everybody wants to French kiss the dog, Mal." The blond, heavily tattooed man grinned, handing the fur baby over. "But he's a great kisser. I taught him myself.
Kylie Scott
#13. Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty.
L.M. Montgomery
#14. But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
Tony Kushner
#16. Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
L.M. Montgomery
#17. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
Tracy Chevalier
#18. Anne-Elisabeth had taken the music from Dr. Horvath and was looking through it. 'I see finger-cramping possibilities, William - lots of them,' she told him.
I see music,' William said, winking at her. 'Lots of it.
John Irving
#20. Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that - rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I'm proud of.
L.M. Montgomery
#21. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Jane Austen
#22. The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-
Jane Austen
#23. Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. Anne Byrhhe
Bohdi Sanders
#24. My future seemed to stretch before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the very best does. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#25. Anne Lamott: The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
Brene Brown
#26. For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's.
Meredith Duran
#27. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#29. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.
Romano Prodi
#30. ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth.
L.M. Montgomery
#31. Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.
Anne F. Beiler
#32. Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
L.M. Montgomery
#33. You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
Natalie Dormer
#35. In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.
L.M. Montgomery
#36. Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#38. Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little.
"I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea ...
L.M. Montgomery
#39. Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?
L.M. Montgomery
#40. Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?
L.M. Montgomery
#41. What's going on here?" asked a deep voice at her elbow.
Anne turned to find her guardian standing beside her. He looked solidly masculine and incredibly competent to deal with the child's wizened master and even with the spectators to what had turned into a near spectacle.
Gayle Wilson
#42. There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.
Sandra Bernhard
#43. How sympathetic you look, Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
L.M. Montgomery
#45. Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.
Jane Austen
#46. I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;
Jane Austen
#48. The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
Elaine Sciolino
#49. Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.
Jane Austen
#50. Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
Mary Gaitskill
#51. When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
#52. Anne's awfully sensitive,' said Rhoda. 'And she's bad about - well, facing things. If anything's upset her, she'd just rather not talk about it,
Agatha Christie
#53. What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.
"Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
L.M. Montgomery
#54. Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.
John Debney
#55. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier
#56. We're asleep, said Suni. Just walking and talking, eating and shitting. Sound asleep.
And we have to be that way, of course, said Anne. It's the human equivalent of fallowness.
Spiritual hibernation, said Suni.
Alice Walker
#57. Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.
L.M. Montgomery
#58. Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow.
L.M. Montgomery
#59. Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'
Seth Numrich
#61. Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.
Lydia Leonard
#62. LADY ANNE:
What, do you tremble? Are you all afraid?
Alas, I blame you not, for you are mortal,
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. -
William Shakespeare
#63. The king smiled at Anne. She dropped him a curtsy straight down, like a bucket in a well, head up, and a small challenging smile on her lips. The king was not taken, he liked easy women, he liked smiling women. He did not like women who fixed him with a dark challenging gaze.
Philippa Gregory
#64. Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.
L.M. Montgomery
#65. My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
Lisa O'Hare
#66. In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
John Harsanyi
#67. As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
Kate Williams
#68. If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.
Anne F. Beiler
#69. Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.
Philippa Gregory
#70. Grey's OK on a man,' says Mary-Anne. 'Silver fox and all that.' Ruth notices that Frank doesn't seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn't a female equivalent to 'silver fox'. 'Grey-haired old bat' doesn't cover it somehow.
Elly Griffiths
#71. How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Diana E. Ruiz
#72. Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d'Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.
Alexandre Dumas
#73. I'm still here, Ms. Iverson. Let me check my calendar, please. It will be just a moment." Dr. Jane Anne Conner put the call on hold, waited several
Eleanor Webb
#74. In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
Alison Weir
#75. There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
L.M. Montgomery
#77. I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.'
'Why, Dame?'
'Then I should know what to read next.
Rumer Godden
#79. For Jessica, who loves stories, for Anne, who loved them too, and for Di, who heard this one first.
J.K. Rowling
#80. Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks bad. If it's found he lied about the intern and the mistresses, he could get 4-8 years in the White House.
Argus Hamilton
#81. Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)
L.M. Montgomery
#82. I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.
L.M. Montgomery
#83. There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.
Greg Giraldo
#84. Lady Anne sighed and whispered to Penelope, My brother stands guard over me like a sphinx or a fiery dragon. Only men with courage are allowed to make way to my side, and unfortunately England is full of chicken-hearted nitwits.
Anya Wylde
#85. Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
Jerry Stiller
#86. 'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.
Willow Shields
#87. With a firm hushed tone, she replied, "Just let him go. Women like Anne will always be the best choice for our lifestyle"
"Well, that may be true, but at least when he was with me, he didn't have to drink himself to death just to get through the day
Devon Ashley
#88. Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
L.M. Montgomery
#89. I think the little things in life often cause more trouble than the big things - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#90. As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.
Langston Hughes
#91. Anne looked up. Tall and handsome and distinguished-looking - dark, melancholy, inscrutable eyes - melting, musical, sympathetic voice - yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he
L.M. Montgomery
#92. On the morning appointed for Admiral Croft and Mrs. Croft's seeing Kellynch-hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them.
Jane Austen
#93. After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.
L.M. Montgomery
#95. Anne laughed.
I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. You cannot see yourself, can you, Anne? Except in a mirror, and there everything is backwards.
Greg Keyes
#97. That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
L.M. Montgomery
#98. Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Anne Lamott's priest friend Tom, how to get through:
"Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe."
Salon April 25, 2003
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