Ann Petry
Related NED VIZZINI I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when the... DAVID TALBOT KILROY J. OLDSTER ARTHUR MILLER I guess it was part of their dream, not after the fact but before the fact when they were still dati... GUY ROCHA CRAIG GROESCHEL DEYTH BANGER CRAIG GROESCHEL SARA ZARR HENRY JAMES Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON NEAL STEPHENSON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM HANK STRAM I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover... CARL BARKS They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn'... SUSAN DANLY ERNEST HEMINGWAY PAULO COELHO CHRISTINA ENGELA Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA These homes tell this story about what we were thinking about life and how we were shaping it. They ... JEANNE LAMBIN STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an... ALAN YANG As the second story collapsed, they climbed onto the roof and part of it floated away and they float... LANDON WILLIAMS He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn... LILLI JOLGREN DAY HILARY SWANK They're a mid-major school, they made it to the Final Four and that's a big story. But all stories h... AL HORFORD GEORGE ORWELL GEORGE R.R. MARTIN C. JOYBELL C. ALICE SEBOLD ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH GINA GREENLEE DEYTH BANGER Change was a constant in Walt Disney’s commitment to tell a story well, to bring it to an audience... NEWTON LEE SARAH J. MAAS HARPER LEE They came out hard in the first half and finished. That was the story of the game. We had a lot of f... ANDY BRUNNER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PAULO COELHO SARAH DESSEN We felt it had a character, it had a great story to tell, it had interesting people and it had a ric... JEFF CHIRICO But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference.... KENN KAUFMAN DONALD MILLER A number of films ... have taken a story that may not seem so fresh, but they made it fresh because ... GEOFFREY GILMORE An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself ... CHRIS KRAUS JULIE KAGAWA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN I think it was an important and a very constructive dialogue. The operators talked about how they fe... MAGGIE LYNCH We wanted to inform our readers of a story that had violence spawned by imagery. We felt they wouldn... CHUCK PROCHASKA GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is another side to this story, and Raffy will tell it soon. I hope that the public will wait t... ARN TELLEM LEO TOLSTOY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through ... EMILIA CLARKE SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside.. TREVON CLARK KILROY J. OLDSTER GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In Aruba, I don't know what the situation is there, but it was interesting that these young men coul... FRANKIE BAILEY CARRIE RYAN It ended up raining, so we had to go indoors. The courts were very quick. They had a lot of big hitt... MICKEY COOK These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa... KEATON THOMAS RICHIE NORTON MICHAEL GRANT It was scary. It was dramatic. It was new. It had all the elements of a news story. ANDREW REVKIN They said the action was cool and the effects were cool. But they also said the reason they chose it... GREGG BISHOP NEIL GAIMAN STEVEN SPIELBERG
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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ANNE PETRY ANN COULTER ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN NOCENTI ANN LANDERS I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep. ANN WILSON Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love... ANN BRASHARES We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's... ANN ROMNEY You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ... ANN POWERS ANN COULTER If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer... ANN ROMNEY ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN HOOD ANN LANDERS There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection. ANN JILLIAN ANN OAKLEY ANN COULTER ANN LANDERS ANN RICHARDS ANN LANDERS Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes... ANN BRASHARES You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart... ANN BRASHARES ANN LANDERS ANN VOSKAMP ANN PATCHETT ANN VOSKAMP ANN RICHARDS ANN DRUYAN ANN VOSKAMP ANN AGUIRRE The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l... ANN BRASHARES ANN OAKLEY ANN OAKLEY ANN LANDERS ANN RICHARDS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN OAKLEY ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN OAKLEY ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN OAKLEY ANN OAKLEY ANN LANDERS ANN SCHULTZ ANN BEATTIE ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f... ANN RADCLIFFE When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears. ANN RADCLIFFE It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one! ANN RADCLIFFE There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e... ANN RADCLIFFE Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o... ANN RADCLIFFE ANN LANDERS What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab... ANN RADCLIFFE There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children. ANN RADCLIFFE What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so... ANN RADCLIFFE Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p... ANN RADCLIFFE The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen... ANN RADCLIFFE Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow. ANN RADCLIFFE I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o... ANN RADCLIFFE ANN HOOD ANN HOOD ANN COULTER ANN LANDERS ANN RICHARDS ANN COULTER ANN COULTER ANN HOOD The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ... ANN BRASHARES ANN LANDERS ANN ROBINSON ANN NOCENTI ANN COULTER ANN OAKLEY Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit... ANN COTTON ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN LANDERS ANN HOOD On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women... ANN CALLIS Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the... ANN ROMNEY ANN LANDERS ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN COULTER ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN VOSKAMP ANN LANDERS ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ... ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr... ANN ROMNEY ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan... ANN LECKIE ANN BEATTIE ANN NOCENTI ANN ROBINSON ANN COULTER ANN COULTER ANN LANDERS ANN COULTER Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the quest... ANN LECKIE ANN AGUIRRE Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g... ANN BRASHARES ANN VOSKAMP Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ANN MACBETH I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through. ANN ROMNEY Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic. ANN CLEEVES The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character.... ANN-MARGRET ANN COULTER Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How d... ANN DEMEULEMEESTER The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economic... ANN COTTON It is in this spirit of community that we have decided to forego this traditional celebration at thi... ANN SNYDER A very special thanks to all these organizations. They quickly responded to a sudden and pressing ne... ANN SNYDER Under the extraordinary leadership of Carol Mitchener, all of our staff members have banded together... ANN SNYDER They are incredible people who have accomplished miracles and will accomplish many more before this ... ANN SNYDER In addition to providing for these basic needs, we also ask evacuees if there are other very importa... ANN SNYDER These outdoor restaurants are wonderful, ANN SNYDER The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer. ANN SMITH We kept finding that we didn't have engineers trained for the jobs companies moving here needed. ANN SMITH The Busy Bee Cafe was a popular hangout, especially after the young people attended the Princess The... ANN SMITH We are not only letting them know they will see an increase, but letting them know how they can save... ANN SMITH How do you market Dane County as a whole, when there is some real divergence? ANN SMITH We're still waiting for word, ANN SMITH generally what we are also seeing. ANN SMITH It used to take forever to achieve even 70 percent generic uptake. Consumers are much more willing t... ANN SMITH Once Validation Authority is fully deployed, more than 800,000 Army personnel will be able to use th... ANN SMITH To imagine that an issue of this magnitude would get such an abbreviated report is unbelievably iron... ANN SMITH The only manipulations they can use are what the state gives them. I hand them all out, and I send t... ANN SIMS The object is to standardize the test across the state, and the easiest way for the state to do that... ANN SIMS I'm here until the end of June, and my goal is to continue the really good work we've been doing. I ... ANN SIMS I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm... ANN SIMS Personally and professionally, I did not feel that I could commit to the job for three years, and as... ANN SIMS None of this has been granted for us yet to use. ANN SIMS I believe it's what we need to do for the community and to show support, so that nobody is forgotten... ANN SIMPSON Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexuall... ANN SIMPSON As a result, this potential source of funding will be delayed well beyond the six month period. ANN SIMPSON We understand the legislation to place a bond measure before California voters in June 2006, that th... ANN SIMPSON A further delay of six months would cost the Postal Service over $2 million, at a minimum, in mainte... ANN SIMPSON We notified our principals (Wednesday) and our student support service department is working closely... ANN SIMPSON I can't think of a greater honor than to have a dorm named after you. You really don't know what col... ANN SIMPSON You want to make sure, if you've got those little ones, that you have enough entertainment. ANN SEXTON After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lo... ANN SEXTON That can vary from refrigerator-to-refrigerator obviously... if it's a good working refrigerator, 24... ANN SEXTON The American Red Cross recommends that you have (a minimum of) a gallon of water per family member i... ANN SEXTON Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and th... ANN SANDERS We hope our students will become better citizens of the world and have a better appreciation of thei... ANN SANDERS We need $6,000 to do this. ANN SANDERS There has been a lot of dog fighting down there they have to roam around and look for food. They hav... ANN SANDERS We have only enough food for about two days, ANN SANDERS The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how. ANN RULE Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials. ANN RULE Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. ANN RULE I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a lit... ANN RULE I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's ... ANN RULE I always want to give the victim a voice. ANN RULE I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th... ANN RULE Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b... ANN RULE
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... 
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
It is a lie. 
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... 
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same e... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... 
We knew we had to go through Oakland to win the championship, and they knew they had to go through K... 
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I wa... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. 
I'm just so excited, ... a movie with a lot of heart. It's a very important story that we all made f... 
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wa... 
Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit... 
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. 
When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Cal had told her all girls had it, it was natural as breathing, it was a sign they were growing up, ... 
That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... 
If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... 
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's liv... 
Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get... 
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah ... 
It had been her mercy, her refusal to kill a known enemy, that had made me realize the Order was wro... 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
We die a day at a time 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. 
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What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... 
Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and g... 
Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded ... 
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistake... 
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive... 
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. 
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations t... 
If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ... 
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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love eva... 
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high... 
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness... 
Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend y... 
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days befo... 
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef... 
Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’r... 
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to ch... 
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and g... 
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor... 
Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o... 
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha... 
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F... 
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri... 
I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around. 
There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane... 
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma... 
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. 
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way... 
You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA. 
For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as