Annie Dillard Quotes

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfFreeProcessLogicBackAway

Wherever you are - be all there.

Jim Elliot

MotivationalYouWherever

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Jeff Bridges

YouHardPayContractGoingAgree

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

GoodHumbleWaterExcellenceSociety

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

John Sununu

LifeBusinessArtBlameColdBad

When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America.

Tom Perez

AmericaLadyGrandchildrenYouI Can

I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.

Ry Cooder

MusicOpportunityImaginationWriting

It's quite hard to act yourself all the time.

Dick Van Dyke

TimeYourselfHardActQuite

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

Dory Previn

MadnessViolenceOpenOutBring

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Brooke Langton

DancersBroadwayFilmOurActual

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Scott Weiland

MusicGoGo For ItListenJustRead

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton

PeopleMeUniverseBodyMy OwnOwn

Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say, and I'm not scared to say anything.

Tink

PeopleBlackThinkInterestingReady

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