Annie Dillard Quotes

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Annie Dillard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

VisionTimeJealousThinkYouWrong

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

Jodi Balfour

TimeMyselfI AmAmEmbarrass

I shave without using shaving cream.

Jerry Stiller

ShavingWithoutCreamShaveUsing

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

John Goodman

ReadingYouBackMoreComeStuff

One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out.

John M. Grunsfeld

SpacePressureYouCleaningOutGet

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

Michael Haneke

MoviesWayOne WayAssaultAnother

My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

Amy Sherald

BrotherMeStrongLostDyingHow

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

Amor Towles

LifeWisdomMeLateBloomHim

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

Soledad O'Brien

InvestingMothersMoveBecause

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

David Simon

StoryYouReasonOnlyMakeWriter

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

Clint Black

WritingSongFeelChristmasMore

Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.

Astro Teller

LifeDayDeathSacrificePeopleBad

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

Willie Smits

StressImportantWildRescueMust

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