Anne Lamott Quotes

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1954

Topics

FriendBrotherMeLovingRockBig

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Robert Reich

JobBetterDoingMoralityCrisis

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

John James Audubon

LifeNatureMyselfGivingStudyDid

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

Jeff Perry

DoingUniqueTelevisionKnowDone

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

Sonny Perdue

BusinessGovernmentWorldTrueHard

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

GoodChildrenImaginationWrite

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Mira Nair

TruthTruth IsPowerfulMoreFiction

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Lou Henry Hoover

FearGirlStandPersonIndependent

As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don't think people took me seriously for a really long time. Certainly the Miracle Mop being my first successful product, people started to pay attention, and I guess now they really pay attention.

Joy Mangano

PathTimePeopleMeThinkAttention

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Jon Brion

SayPointAnythingBeingMadeAbout

Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.

Jonathan Galassi

MeImpactClarityBigHerSomething

I enjoy hard golf courses.

Brooks Koepka

GolfEnjoyHardCoursesGolf Courses

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

Alison Gopnik

SchoolPeopleEnvironmentGoMore

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