Anne Enright Quotes

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

Anne Enright

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• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Learning
  • Smart
  • Difference

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Me
  • Boundaries

• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Best
  • Become
  • Well-Rounded

• Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Nobody

• Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Man
  • Practice
  • Intention

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Heart
  • Road
  • Grief

• I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • Time
  • Father
  • Coffee

• Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

  

  Arthur D. Levinson

• I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.

  

  Dwight Schultz

• I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

  

  John Irving
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Hand

• A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Society
  • Education
  • Goal

• I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

  

  Anne Enright