Top 34 Annie Barrows Quotes
#1. He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.
Annie Barrows
#2. It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
Annie Barrows
#3. We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
Annie Barrows
#4. A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.
Dakotsu Iida
#5. I am a grown woman
mostly
and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.
Annie Barrows
#6. I swung the door open and relaxed. She wasn't there. I stepped in and shut the door behind me. I had promised God I wouldn't touch anything. I'd just look at what was lying around. If Jane Eyre had only looked around a little, she might have saved herself a lot of heartache.
Annie Barrows
#7. I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.
Annie Barrows
#8. And as robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life.
Thomas More
#9. When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
Manny Montana
#10. When treatment for health issues is conducted like a military operation, our body-minds become a battlefield.
Heidi DuPree
#11. Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.
Annie Barrows
#12. Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
Alice Waters
#14. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#15. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
Annie Barrows
#16. If I could believe I had a soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.
Annie Barrows
#17. If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
Annie Barrows
#18. You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
Annie Barrows
#19. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
#20. Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!
Annie Barrows
#21. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.
Annie Barrows
#22. Whatever gave you the idea we were like everybody else?
Annie Barrows
#23. Grandpa, that's something I never am ... Lonesome in my spirits
Annie Barrows
#24. I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?
Annie Barrows
#25. A third way to put the Law of Least Effort into action is to practice defenselessness. This means relinquishing the need to convince others of your point of view. By doing this, you gain access to enormous amounts of energy that have previously been wasted.
Deepak Chopra
#26. Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.
Annie Barrows
#28. There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be.
Billy Graham
#29. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity. You
Annie Barrows
#30. That meant that Nancy was the grown-up, the one who got to decide everything. And it meant that Bean was the little, boring, poopy baby who didn't get to decide anything.
Annie Barrows
#31. I've learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.
Annie Barrows
#32. But what can I do? I can - she leapt into the abyss - join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.
Annie Barrows
#33. A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
Annie Barrows
#34. If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.
Annie Barrows
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