Top 100 Quotes About Anna
#1. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
Nancy Willard
#2. Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.
Douglas Coupland
#3. In those days, before the First World War, young women did not use makeup. Anna was free of lipstick, and her gold hair was rolled in great coils over her ears.
Daphne Du Maurier
#4. Anna Quangel felt herself trembling. Then she looked over at Otto again. He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back. Still
Hans Fallada
#5. Belial pounds on the door and we both go still. We're panting like mad. Nothing like a dose of your girlfriend's father to douse the kindled fires. Anna giggles in a very mischievous way and I grin.
My lovely little vixen.
Wendy Higgins
#6. Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love ...
Leo Tolstoy
#7. sight of the name on the screen. Anna. It grows when I read the text. This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here.
Kristen Callihan
#8. With Anna gone, we listen for footfalls, each of us avoiding the other with an intense concentration. Occasionally we cross paths by accident, our bubbles of personal space like a Venn diagram, becoming darker where they overlap.
Dad left.
Anna is gone.
I have never been here.
Mindy McGinnis
#9. Yes, I suppose so, answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?"
"Capitalists," said Anna.
Eleanor Arnason
#11. I just had a precognition, she told Anna silently,a stream of unspoken love and joy. You will be very happy. Your best friend says go for it.
Annas face was bright, as if someone had set a candle behind it. You're giving me permission?
I'm giving you an order!
L.J.Smith
#12. You should go then. Don't go. Don't bloody leave me. Throw your arms around me. I don't care if you smear my face with paint, Anna. Tell me you love me. Show me you still want me. Torture me at bit more.Oh, God ... she was walking away from me.
Wendy Higgins
#13. Next to that dragon Micha had wirtten: 'KIS EacH OthER'.
Abel looked at Anna. Anna looked at Abel.
'She is the little queen,' said Abel, 'in our fairy tale, at least.'
'One must obey the queen,' said Anna.
Antonia Michaelis
#14. Let's get you one, Anna."
"A lover?"
Edith rolled her eyes. "No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover." Edith smirked. "It'll cheer you up!
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#15. You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine.
Joan G. Robinson
#16. There's a whole world out there, Anna, a whole world for us to explore.
Gemma Malley
#17. Everyone had a place. Everyone fit. Everyone belonged. Everyone but Anna Mae.
Kathleen Fuller
#18. I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.
Hillary Clinton
#19. I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.
Jade Parker
#20. It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual throws about himself, from Anna's smiles, from Lilian's tomorrows, from the shut-in room, the turned-in heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
#21. Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.
Marion Bartoli
#22. The fact that Anna is somewhere
having coffee or a dream
is an assault on me.
I hate these moments of poverty.
What does man eat? ask the phenomenologists.
Like the dogs, names,
down there,
starving.
Anne Carson
#23. I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.
Anna May Wong
#24. Mr. Cruncher ... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
Charles Dickens
#25. I don't have my knife," I mumble.
"Don't start that," Anna says. She walks away from me sharply. "Arthur without Excalibur was still Arthur.
Kendare Blake
#26. Anna [Nicole Smith] was very firm that the Bahamas was her home, it's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn and she wanted Daniel to be near her.
Howard K. Stern
#27. Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux,
Bill Bryson
#28. About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
Belinda Jack
#29. As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.
Penelope Cruz
#30. Anna returned her gaze to the bankers' wives, who huddled into the company of one another. The women were young. Their husbands wore the jewellery of their beauty like elegant wristwatches.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#31. She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.
Jenna Blum
#32. I won't marry you," she repeated.
"Why not? You were eager enough to fuck me."
Anna winced. "I do wish you would stop using that word."
Edward swung around and assumed a hideously sarcastic expression. "Would you prefer swive? Tup? Dance the buttock jig?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#33. 'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi
#34. Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."
- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}
Leo Tolstoy
#35. You're not alone. I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong. - Anna White Relationship
Christina G. Hibbert
#36. My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Phil Daniels
#37. You're my past, my present, and my future. You're my life, Anna. I love you.
Samantha Chase
#38. Nothing at all would be a step up from my conversations with Anna. God, she's dull! You get the feeling that she probably had something to say for herself once upon a time, but now everything is about the child: Is she warm enough? Is she too warm? How much milk did she take?
Paula Hawkins
#39. But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.
Judy Woodruff
#40. In the sixth row of the theater, in the third chair in, Anna winks at me. Or maybe she just blinks. I can't tell. She's missing half of her face.
Kendare Blake
#41. I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
Maureen Dowd
#42. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.
Asa Larsson
#43. A great writer is a great writer ... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
Phil Klay
#44. When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.
Paul Marciano
#45. I could give him business cards...multi-camoflauge background. David, woodworker, amateur computer coder, and decoder extraordinaire," Lily daydreamed.
"Coder and decoder," Anna chuckled.
Kate Willis
#46. 'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.
Scott Turow
#47. So, Anna, did you know
That when you kill yourself
Those you say you love,
They die too?
Terri Fields
#48. As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out.
And then I realized he was faking it.
Kelley Armstrong
#49. He looks like shit, by the way. Hot shit, but shit nonetheless. - Anna Allen
S.C. Stephens
#50. Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
Anton Chekhov
#51. At the Manor on Bahnhofstrasse Anna fought aggressive crowds to pick out a modest twin sweater set that
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#52. I think Anna Tambour is criminally under-read.
Ben Peek
#53. When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
Maria Semple
#54. What should girls read?" Caroline asked, as Anna entered the library. "Everything," Anna replied. A
Joanne Dobson
#55. By the time I had gotten off the phone, I knew that I was going after Anna. My gut told me that she wasn't just a story. And besides, I wanted to see her, dressed in blood.
Kendare Blake
#56. Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.'
'Do I have to eat them?'
'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said.
Antonia Michaelis
#57. For clothes, I like Anna on Regent's Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes. I also love Arrogant Cat on Kensington Church Street. Space NK on Duke of York Square for exciting potions. I think I stretch the term 'tester' way beyond its boundaries.
Sophie Winkleman
#58. Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
Doris Lessing
#59. I've been in love with you for months. I'm telling you now because I think you love me, too, Anna. You just don't think you're supposed to. You'll tell me when you're ready. I can wait.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#60. Anna, Anna," Josh interrupts. "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. You'll be fine.
Stephanie Perkins
#61. So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it's a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can't own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.
Legs McNeil
#62. Sophia Mercer," Elodie intoned, "we have come to induct you into our sisterhood. Say the five words to begin the ritual."
I blinked at her. "Are you freaking kidding me?"
Anna gave an exasperated sigh. "No, the five words are 'I accept you offer, sisters.
Rachel Hawkins
#63. The cupboards start opening and closing by themselves, drawers slamming shut and the walls start to bleed. Slamming doors and smashing plates. Anna is acting like a common poltergeist. How embarrassing.
Kendare Blake
#64. His skin felt so war, and I wondered that in all her lectures upon proper behaviour, Anna had failed to mention that behaving improperly was much more fun.
Natasha Solomons
#65. While Karen loved Simon for all his faults, Anna doesn't love Steve for his. She can't and never will. How can she, when Steve's worst fault leads to this?
Sarah Rayner
#66. It's a little girl named anna, and she doesn't know if she's ready to say good-bye to a father she's never really said hello to.
Pamela Ribon
#67. When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down.
Ike Turner
#68. Perdu wanted Anna to feel that she was in a nest. He wanted her to sense the boundless possibilities offered by books. They would always be enough. They would never stop loving their readers. They were a fixed point in an otherwise unpredictable world. In life. In love. After death.
Nina George
#69. Mphhh ... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.
I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up
the world is alive.
Douglas Coupland
#70. The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.
Orhan Pamuk
#71. Allison Janney is amazing, and Anna Faris was a revelation to me.
Mimi Kennedy
#72. When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'
Luke Treadaway
#73. What does that mean?' Anna whispered. 'What does that all mean?
Abel ran his fingers through her hair again, and his hand wandered down and stayed on her throat. 'It means everything,' he whispered back. 'And nothing.
Antonia Michaelis
#74. But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.
John Green
#75. Cas whistled. "You are a sight for sore eyes, Anna Banana.
Jennifer Rush
#76. I can still impress my family, yeah. In fact, I always text my family when I meet someone famous. I ran into Anna Faris and I texted my niece, and I said "Just hugged it out with Anna Faris," and she was like, "Oh my God! OMG! OMG!" She got a big kick out of it.
Jane Lynch
#77. I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#79. No more sex.
I blink several times at Anna as we stand outside the car the next morning. Have we been married long enough for her to say that?
Wendy Higgins
#80. Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.
Patricia Cornwell
#81. I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on the bathing suit last month, it rubbed against my butt and unleashed the Absolute Best Summer Ever Bikini Genie, granting all my wishes.
Sarah Ockler
#82. While Sigmund famously focused on the unconscious (the id), Anna made the ego seem more important, particularly in respect of therapy and psychoanalysis. Her
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#83. Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'
Marcia Muller
#84. Why do you get to act all crazy over a guy and I don't?" Anna asked.
"You have to earn the crazy," Grace said. "You're not old enough yet.
Jill Shalvis
#85. Listen, douchepants," I said, "you're not going to tell me anything about disease I don't already know. I need one and only one thing from you before I walk out of your life forever: WHAT HAPPENS TO ANNA'S MOTHER?
John Green
#86. Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
Melina Marchetta
#87. You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
Patricia Briggs
#88. Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston
#89. Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#90. Why won't you let me kiss you, Anna?"
I can't breathe.
"Why, Anna?"
"It's too much," I rasp.
"Not when I want everything." He says it so deep and strong, a staking of a claim. "And I want everything with you, Anna.
Kristen Callihan
#91. 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
Mary Schmich
#92. Anna, you do have decent fashion sense. But I've seen your outfits, and you don't have anything to wear on a date. Jeans, capris, geeky tee shirts, and more jeans.
J.M. Richards
#93. The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.
Sue Margolis
#94. Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.
David Thewlis
#95. Anna felt his hand linger on the small of her back as he placed her gently on the ground. His hand was so warm and reassuring. It felt almost as though it belonged there.
Walt Disney Company
#96. Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom?
Antonia Michaelis
#97. Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores.
Ann Coulter
#98. Lewis: "Oh, no."
Kaitlyn: "Lewis?"
Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob."
Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping."
Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna."
Anna: "Hi, Kait."
Lewis: "Hi, Anna."
Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!
L.J.Smith
#99. Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina.
Elena Ferrante
#100. With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
Eric Fellner
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