Little Orphan Annie Sayings

#1. If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Marguerite Young

#2. This is you. She pointed at the stick figure with enormous red curly marks and blue eyes.
Did my hair really look like that? I ran a hand over my head, feeling a bit like Little Orphan Annie.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#3. The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of the land.

Louis Nowra

#4. Here's what else I've learned: Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life.

Tara Stiles

#6. The only problem I see is that you're as stubborn as a mule, but I'm sure I'll find a way to whip that right out of you." "Literally or figuratively?" "That's entirely up to your pain tolerance.

Kira Barker

#7. Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life ... harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

Michael Crummey

#8. At twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

Booth Tarkington

#9. Every story needs to be told in just the right way.

Thomas Ligotti

#10. Writing is an adventure.

Winston Churchill

#11. It's a struggle but you have to keep going.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#12. Every peace-filled moment you experience brings terror to the powers of darkness.

Bill Johnson

#13. Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

Dustin Lance Black

#14. The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times ... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#15. Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer