Annie Dillard Quotes

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1945

Topics

TimeChaosStandHandsLaborDays

For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.

Jim James

LifeGoodPeopleFaceTrueRight

I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a really hard walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn't fall, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was devastated.

Jessica White

LiveMistakeFashionFaceDoingYou

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

John Clifford

HealthHumanBritishSignificant

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

Michael Gove

ChildrenChallengeParentsRules

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

Jean Pigozzi

WorkGreatArtWalkYourselfMe

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Ambrose Bierce

ProveJudgesInquiryFormalTrial

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

Steve Jurvetson

TodayThinkNameYouDownImportant

Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God.

Sukarno

GodPeopleBelieveOwnOnlyShould

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Trick Daddy

WordsSometimesNothingMeanJust

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

Tracy Morgan

LoveSupportParentsMatterKids

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

Dorothy L. Sayers

FaithImaginationManChristianMost

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it's legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.

Chris Gethard

LifeGlassesMy LifeWhiteBorn

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