Annie Quotes

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

Where love rules, laws are not needed.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

You can't test courage cautiously.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.