Anne Lamott Quotes

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

Anne Lamott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatTeamWaitKindRepublicanGet

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Jimmy Smits

WorkStormYouArtistFindMatter

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

ChildWorldMoreKnowingDeeper

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Jeff Miller

HumbleReligionGovernmentDemocracy

Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.

Mike Barnicle

SmartPhoneEveryoneEverythingJust

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Michael Tippett

MusicYouStrangeUnderstandBecause

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

Lucy Dacus

YourselfPeopleWritingFriendsYou

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.

Jules Verne

ImaginationThoughtsThoughtChoose

People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.

Liu Wen

BeautyCutePeopleStrongThinkSay

When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.

Bobby Lashley

GoodGreatGood ThingsHappenNose

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

SeaBeachLieWaitingGiftReward

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

Anne Reid

LifeLoveThoughtBetterBirthUp

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen

SecretTopEverythingGoingGoes

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