Quotes About St Anne

#1. I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

Lena Dunham

#2. My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

Charles Mingus

#3. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

Tanith Lee

#4. I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed.

Julian Barnes

#5. God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

Matt Chandler

#6. Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#7. As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?

Edward St. Aubyn

#8. St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " 'God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.

Anne Rice

#9. Anne came downstairs wearing a white cotton dress almost indistinguishable from the white cotton nightgown she had taken off.

Edward St. Aubyn

#10. Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.

Anne Rice

#12. Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

Janice Lane Palko

#13. The appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.

Aesop