Annie Dillard Quotes

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveWritingBookBlindSearch

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

John Shadegg

BusinessPathMeStrongCitizenship

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Robert B. Laughlin

HomeChildhoodCottonFieldsWheat

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Tom Conti

MenRestYouLookLooksMovies

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

Mike Krieger

AgeEmpathyPeopleStartKeyDesign

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

GovernmentAdvertisingResultLaws

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Jonathan Safran Foer

PeopleLookFindStrangeTouch

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

Doug Liman

FatherIdentityMoreEventsSenate

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

Aretha Franklin

FashionAlwaysYesBeenConscious

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

Anne Hathaway

ActingLuckyOnlyBeenBabysitting

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

Allyson Felix

GodFaithResponsibilityMeGift

I could dunk a volleyball in high school. I didn't play football because I knew they were going to put me at a fat-guy position, and I didn't want to do that. I am athletic.

Prince Fielder

FootballSchoolI AmMeHigh School

Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.

Susan Collins

ChildrenTimeServiceExperience

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