Annie Dillard Quotes

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodMeHellYouSinKnow

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had been true with the Rolling Stones. 'Straight Outta Compton' was music that parents could loathe with a passion. I knew we had a massive hit.

Jerry Heller

MusicPassionChildrenHateParents

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

Jenny Holzer

TryingAlwaysAudienceContentBring

It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.

John M. Grunsfeld

AchievementSpaceAmazingMeYears

I like to get in a battle I can win.

Robert Kraft

WinBattleI CanGetLike

The places we'd play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.

Angus Young

WorkGoodTimeDayMeLooking

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

Anita Roddick

EnvironmentMovementStartedOnly

I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.

John Waters

MoneyJobParentsMeThinkBack

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Amy Winehouse

EmotionalOnlyPhysicalNeeds

What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.

Tom Graves

TeaMeVoicePartyConservativeOwe

I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. They'll just look at me like, 'I know I know your voice, and I know I know your face.'

Rutina Wesley

MeVoiceFaceSomeoneLookKnow

I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my name and picture came in the newspaper.

Mary Kom

ParentsChampionNamePictureDoing

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

Miguel de Cervantes

VictoryBe PreparedHalfPrepared

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