Top 100 Quotes About Anna
#2. He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.
Anna Breslaw
#3. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Anna Kendrick
#4. Gratitude is the number one spiritual combatant against bitterness and anger. A thankful spirit naturally uproots and prevents dark emotions from poisoning the soil of our spirits.
Anna Blanc
#5. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."
Anna Akhmatova
#6. What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson
#7. A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen
#8. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.
Anna Quindlen
#10. I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.
Anna Nicole Smith
#11. I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.
Anna Popplewell
#12. I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
Anna Deavere Smith
#13. It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.
Anna Godbersen
#14. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.
Anna Julia Cooper
#15. I take it he was in the closet?"
"He might as well have been in Narnia.
Anna Zabo
#16. Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.
Anna Akhmatova
#17. These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
Anna Friel
#18. Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.
Anna Quindlen
#19. It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.
Anna Quindlen
#20. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
Anna Freeman
#21. Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#22. For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.
Anna Keesey
#24. I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.
Anna Torv
#25. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.
Anna Freeman
#26. An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.
Anna Held
#27. For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.
Anna Quindlen
#28. Unholy delight lit Giles's dark face to flashing brilliance. She realized that while he mightn't be handsome, he was breathtakingly attractive and brimming with potent masculinity more powerful than mere good looks.
Anna Campbell
#30. We can get so wrapped up in looking for the next big move or change of season the Lord might bring us into that we miss His will for us in daily walking out the calling of being a prophetic singer.
Anna Blanc
#31. Girl, all you have to do is say the word, and Mr. Lusty McLust a Lot here will be happy to whisper some dirty nothings in your ear.
Wendy Higgins
#33. If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.
Anna Quindlen
#34. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.
Anna Jarzab
#35. I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.
Anna Wintour
#37. Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.
Sarah Schulman
#38. Was she in love? Rosalind had asked herself that many times in the last few weeks. Anna's mother said you're in love when you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Rosalind felt bad enough for a motorcycle, maybe, but not a truck.
Jeanne Birdsall
#39. I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.
Anna Torv
#40. My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
Anna Kendrick
#41. Heart hurting, I stand rigid in his embrace and stare down Whitney. "Considering you've called me Anna Banana-pants since the third grade," I add coolly, "you're either extremely dense or a liar.
Kristen Callihan
#42. Love this in the film, "Velvet Goldmine" it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Anna Sui
#43. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.
Anna Freeman
#44. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.
Anna Quindlen
#45. Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?
Anna Wintour
#46. Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Anna Funder
#49. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
#50. That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
Eva Ibbotson
#51. I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.
Anna Faris
#52. Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
Anna Quindlen
#53. No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
Anna Held
#54. It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.
Anna Breslaw
#55. If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.
Anna Popplewell
#56. Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'
Craig Kilborn
#57. Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.
Anna Godbersen
#58. Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don't always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace.
Anna Stevens
#59. The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#60. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
Anna Maria Chavez
#61. Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
Anna Quindlen
#62. I don't want to play the same character seven times. I think people would probably get bored of it.
Anna Popplewell
#63. If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more reasonable, but because it suited his manner of life better.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
Anna Kendrick
#66. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#67. If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'
Anna Netrebko
#68. To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.
Anna Sui
#69. The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.
Anna Paszkiewicz
#70. Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Leo Tolstoy
#72. I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.
Anna Quindlen
#73. I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
Anna Kendrick
#74. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
Susan Minot
#75. He swallowed again and tightened his grip so even if she wanted to leave, she couldn't. It astonished him how difficult it was to find the one word he needed after these exquisite days. The one word he had no right to say.
He forced the forbidden syllable from his tight throat.
Stay.
Anna Campbell
#76. Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#77. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
Anna Wintour
#78. The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!
Anna Silk
#79. Anyway, I followed the pulse."
"Who was it?"
"The pulse disappeared before I got there."
"Got where?"
"Emma's house, Galen. Fresh footsteps marked the sand from the water to her house. That's why the pulse disappeared-it left the water.
Anna Banks
#80. A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#81. Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and our worth is boundless because He gave everything to have us.
Anna Blanc
#82. Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle
#83. Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
Carine Roitfeld
#84. Because she is my sister and I am her protector. And since I failed in that duty in life, I will satisfy it in death.
Anna Kay Akana
#85. What right had they to make me suffer like that?
Anna Sewell
#86. Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team.
Anna Quindlen
#87. They prickled her like thorns and leaves growing under her skin, and she felt the ache of a glass vine caging her forearm. They would crack, and the jagged pieces would cut into her wrists. Her blood would tint the glass. It would splinter and cut deeper into her.
Anna-Marie McLemore
#88. The difference between baptism and drowning is a few faithless breaths.
Anna-Marie McLemore
#89. Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
Anna Sui
#90. It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
Anna Chlumsky
#91. Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
Anna Funder
#92. Anna [Nicole Smith ] in a lot of ways always thought she was going to die young and she said that she thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. Initially, Anna had always wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe.
Howard K. Stern
#93. The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother
Anna Freud
#94. When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.
Anna Netrebko
#95. I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.
Anna Akhmatova
#96. For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?'
Anna Kendrick
#98. If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
Anna Chancellor
#99. My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
Cornelia Funke
#100. Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
Anna Torv
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