Annie Dillard Quotes

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PastYouWoodNothingAimWill

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

Jeremy Renner

GoodBadPlayWantHimBad Guy

My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.

Mel Rodriguez

MeCoolMomFallBackBorn

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

John Maeda

PeopleResearchResultsNeedMeans

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

John Mellencamp

WorryI CanWriteLinesAdultPop

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

WomenFreedomMenI AmFreeHuman

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon

LoveLove IsPeopleSolitudeTwo

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

Lisa Nicole Carson

MoneyThinkEnjoyYouJustYour

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Dennis Quaid

LoveYourselfLuckYouActingKnow

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

Drew Barrymore

LifeRoadYouKnowBeenStore

I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.

Clint Smith

LiveSonMomentWorldGuiltyBorn

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

Clyde Tombaugh

NatureFlowerPowerGreatColors

I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity.

Phil Robertson

LoveMeTreatDisrespectHumanity

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