Annie Quotes

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

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!

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

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...

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

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

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Im usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

I usually kissed my clients if they wanted to kiss. I thought it was just way too weird to say "no kissing allowed," That to me was uncomfortable.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

I've been putting out sexually explicit images of myself for years. I know this sounds bizarre, but somehow it makes me feel safer.

Feel free to cover your eyes at anything that might upset you

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.