Annie Dillard Quotes

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyFatherMotherAlwaysCrowd

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

Anderson Cooper

MotherFamousAliveBeenThanElse

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

Spalding Gray

GoodMeSkiingBetterYouSex

The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn't leave marathoning on a memory like that, so I am running this year to honor everyone in the running community and those unsung heroes from April 15, 2013.

Summer Sanders

CommunityI AmMemoryMeHonorYear

As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.

Sia

GoodBestFriendsGood PersonArtist

I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.

Tory Lanez

ProblemTorontoAnybody

Of all the sicknesses, there is probably none more abusive than homophobia.

Tracy Morgan

MoreNoneThan

I play guitar; I can sing a little bit.

Joshua Henry

GuitarI CanPlayLittleSingBit

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.

Jose Angel Gurria

WaterFoodFreeSecurityInvestment

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

Jon Watts

HopePeopleSmallYouBigJust

I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

Colm Feore

NameHelpPageFalseThingsWhere

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Bryan Singer

LiveWorldRealityPerceiveHow

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

Brie Larson

LiveTimeWorldYouFirst Time

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