I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.


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ANNIE DILLARD
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that b...
ANNIE DILLARD
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...
ANNIE DILLARD
She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARD
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ...
ANNIE BESANT
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical...
ANNIE BESANT
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...
ANNIE PARISSE
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal wo...
ANNIE DILLARD
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a f...
ANNIE DILLARD
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...
ANNIE BESANT
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ...
ANNIE BESANT
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's goin...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a...
ANNIE JACOBSEN
Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she i...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB
I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
ANNIE ILONZEH
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an imposs...
ANNIE BESANT
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
ANNIE DILLARD
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t...
ANNIE DILLARD
Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, mak...
ANNIE DILLARD
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man ...
ANNIE BESANT
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors do...
ANNIE POTTS
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what ...
ANNIE BESANT
I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewher...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of f...
ANNIE BESANT
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the so...
ANNIE BESANT
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed product...
ANNIE BESANT
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ...
ANNIE DILLARD
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more a...
ANNIE BESANT
One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel...
ANNIE BRYANT
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
ANNIE PROULX
Your body is an intelligent organism; it knows how to heal itself.
ANNIE WILSON
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the genera...
ANNIE BESANT
My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER
My grandpa always says he likes music that still sounds good when you unplug it.
ANNIE WOLAVER
When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER
I was named after her. Being named after my great-grandmother shows how God works through the genera...
ANNIE WOLAVER
There are some in foster care and some in quarantine. The court said they would be released to us.
ANNIE STETLER
You were frustrated with her, you wanted to help her because this is a mental illness, this hoarding...
ANNIE STETLER
It's like the seventh level of Hell.
ANNIE STETLER
They were just running wild all over the property. It was worse than anything I have seen, worse tha...
ANNIE STETLER
It was horrific, I don't know how else to explain it.
ANNIE STETLER
We learned to feed off each other even more this season than last. Her moving up top just made my jo...
ANNIE STALZER
It was starting to get pretty frustrating toward the end of my sophomore year. Teams would put two a...
ANNIE STALZER
It's always difficult playing against a great team because you can't play your own game. You have to...
ANNIE STALZER
This is amazing, beating the No.1 team in the nation and getting to play for a state championship my...
ANNIE STALZER
That was big. It really gave us a little more confidence.
ANNIE STALZER
We've been playing so well. This is the perfect season! We couldn't ask for anything better.
ANNIE STALZER