Annie Dillard Fecundity Quotes

#1. I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

Alex Pareene

#2. I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

Donna Mills

#3. Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

Nora Roberts

#4. We're all a bit of a dick. It's the human condition. Nothing to be afraid of.

Steve Coogan

#5. Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale gray eyes spoke more eloquently of his hatred and despair than any words he might have spoken, and it shook Esterhazy to the core.

Douglas Preston

#6. I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

Joey Lauren Adams

#7. 'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

#8. Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

Annie Dillard

#9. He perceived that this memory-jumbled rag-bag of material was in fact the very heart of her, her self-portrait, the way she looked in the mirror when nobody else was in the room ...

Salman Rushdie

#10. I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

Jennifer Connelly