Annie Quotes

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.