Annie Quotes

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.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

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.

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.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

The world knew you before you knew the world.

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

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 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.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

One always finds time for what one likes.

[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.

Write about winter in the summer.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

People ask me so many questions.

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.