Annie's Quotes

#1. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

#2. I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Annie E. Clark

#3. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

Annie Leibovitz

#4. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading
that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?

Annie Dillard

#5. It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

Annie Proulx

#6. When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Annie Dillard

#7. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Annie Proulx

#8. But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.

Nicholas Evans

#9. Would you like some more pancakes? Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to eat on the job. But I must keep up my strength.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

#10. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Annie Leibovitz

#11. If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Annie Lennox

#12. Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

Annie Lennox

#13. The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Annie Jacobsen

#14. Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!

Annie Barrows

#15. Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen

#16. That you always need to look closer at people's lives. You can't just assume that just because they have beauty and wealth that they aren't touched by tragedy, heartbreak, cheating, and everything else that plagues us mere mortals. They put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.

Annie Jocoby

#17. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Annie Lennox

#18. There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

Annie Wersching

#19. I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Annie Dillard

#20. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Annie E. Clark

#21. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.

Annie Barrows

#22. Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

Annie Chapman

#23. I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

Annie Lennox

#24. Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.

Tami Hoag

#25. Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Annie Dillard

#26. There are four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

Annie Proulx

#27. For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

Annie Proulx

#28. Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures.
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie.

E.L. James

#29. When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

Annie Proulx

#30. I think he's Annie/Amy's boyfriend by the way he looks at her - like they're in on something together. Life, maybe.

Colleen Hoover

#31. Grandpa, that's something I never am ... Lonesome in my spirits

Annie Barrows

#32. Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

Annie Jacobsen

#33. The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

Tami Hoag

#34. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Annie Lennox

#35. It's a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.

Annie Ward

#36. It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

Annie Leibovitz

#37. Fearless what that means to me, knowing your enough, when you know in your heart and your mind that you're enough you're fearless. It's not just a magazine, it's a lifestyle, right? So embrace that - I am fearless!

Annie Ilonzeh

#38. The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings.

Annie Dillard

#39. Hey what's your name"
"Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward."
"I'm Ayla Monroe."
She laughs uneasily. "I know."
"Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.

Roxanne St. Claire

#40. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep.

Annie Fisher

#41. Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

Annie Lennox

#42. 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

#43. Do women in love feel as men do? Do men love as women love? His virgin bride shared her pipe-frame bed all smiles and laughter. When they were intimate to the last degree on that bed, did Lou's experience join his, did his experience match hers, during this moment and that moment?

Annie Dillard

#44. When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

Annie Lennox

#45. Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

Annie Leibovitz

#46. That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

Annie Fellows Johnston

#47. I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.

Annie E. Clark

#48. An Eskimo shaman said, "Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls".

Annie Dillard

#49. Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ...

Annie Dillard

#50. After three ex-husbands, she learned to listen to her instincts. That little voice in the back of her head that whispered "he's cheating on you" or "he's using you." When she was around Pallas, that voice said "look at how he protects the weak" and "damn, that ass.

Annie Nicholas

#51. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

Annie Lennox

#52. That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.

Annie Parisse

#53. There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.

Charles De Lint

#54. I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Annie E. Clark

#55. It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

Annie Lennox

#56. Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.
James: What is?
Annie: Giving up.

William Gibson

#57. We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

Annie Lennox

#58. Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)

Annie Baker

#59. Beauty itself is the fruit of the creator's exuberance....

Annie Dillard

#60. There's a story behind every Bookworm"!

Annie Lang

#61. It's an interesting and demanding art to do voices. I have been told so many times that I have a distinctive voice, but of course, I don't hear my own voice as others do, so I don't know.

Annie Potts

#62. I love when the darkness ends, don't you? Maybe that's the whole thing. Maybe I find so much breath taking beauty in the sunrise not so much because of what is starting, but more because of what it signals has ended.

Annie F. Downs

#63. We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Annie Lennox

#64. In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Carl Sagan

#65. Well I thought my time was over, but it's only just begun.

Annie Lennox

#66. It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Annie Leibovitz

#67. Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Annie Lobert

#68. It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#69. I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

Annie Lennox

#70. That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things ... and Annie.

Stephen King

#71. He's dead, Annie. But as long as you haven't dealt with the memories of the things he has done to you, he'll live on. We'll always have to face these times when you think he's returned for you. You'll never be free." It

Lisa Unger

#72. Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

Annie Jacobsen

#73. three things were most important in easing life's final journey. People needed strong relief from physical pain and troublesome symptoms, they needed to preserve their dignity, and they needed help with the psychological and spiritual pain of death.

Annie Clara Brown

#74. She geared her ass to holy-shit-it's-going-to-eat-me speed and didn't think the soles of her flip-flops hit the ground until she reached the door to her own little business. (Angie)

Annie Nicholas

#75. Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

Annie E. Clark

#76. Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

Annie Dillard

#77. Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people. Now everyone must figure out a new way to make a living. Selling hats or popcorn or flowers or coffee, there's not much difference. They're scared.

Annie Ward

#78. Cole gets up and then says, "Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you." He pauses. "Unless they're personal." I roll my eyes.
"Not that it's any of your business, but I'm pretty sure he's desperately in love with my sister." Cole snorts.
"He's crazy."
"He'd have to be, right?

Kiersten White

#79. Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

Annie Dillard

#80. I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to get out ended up being really compelling. It's an emotional roller coaster; there's exhilaration and there's shame.

Annie E. Clark

#81. Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Annie Lennox

#82. Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women ... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#83. Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. Maybe that was the way everyone saw him. But Annie's death had not created the condition; it had merely emphasized it.

Terry Brooks

#84. Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#85. You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then I did this and it was so interesting.

Annie Dillard

#86. I would say she's in the place where the river of time runs into, where the holograms go when they disappear into the air, she is neither completely dreaming, nor fully awake,

Annie Fisher

#87. I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

Annie Potts

#88. Alek," I said. "Would you kindly slam the door in my father's face?

Annie Bellet

#89. Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly.
He froze.
"I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing ... but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat.

Spider Robinson

#90. I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

Annie Lennox

#91. The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.

Annie Dillard

#92. Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

Annie Lennox

#93. Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

Annie Proulx

#94. Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Annie Lennox

#95. Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie's heart - remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.

Susan Wiggs

#96. And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

Nancy Garden

#97. It is a weakening and discoloring idea that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time but that it is too late for us. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less. There is no whit less enlightnment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree.

Annie Dillard

#98. This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

Annie Besant

#99. At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Annie Dillard

#100. 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