Annie Dillard Quotes

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.

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Fall
  • Speak
  • Communication

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Always

• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

  

  Paige O'Hara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Beauty

• I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Been

• I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Work
  • Science

• I'm lucky to have a job where I can bring my kids to work. I love the days they come visit me on set. My goal is and has always been to do work that my kids can be proud of - to set a good example for them. As long as I can still spend quality time with my kids, I'll continue to do what I'm doing and hopefully make them proud.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Easy

• Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Fear

• If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• ...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

  

  George Albert Wells
  • Reading
  • Understanding
  • Winning

• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Remember
  • Painting
  • Secret

• If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Persons
  • Stage
  • Land

• I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Aim
  • Block
  • Wood