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

• Being queen is overrated.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Being
  • Queen
  • Overrated

• 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

• Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Aim
  • Crosses
  • Currents

• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Things
  • Aim

• Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

  

  Homer Hickam
  • Character
  • Should
  • Next

• Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Country
  • Belong
  • Airports

• There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Guilty
  • Humility

• 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