Annie Dillard Quotes

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fight

• I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Career
  • Humour

• Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • America
  • Comedy

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Children
  • Book
  • Friends

• I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • Love
  • Summer

• I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Wake Up

• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Moment
  • Events

• I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Sleeping
  • Exhausted
  • Tempted

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Destiny
  • Bitter

• I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • World
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Time
  • Connection
  • Teenager

• When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Son

• You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • People
  • World
  • Turns

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  

  Annie Dillard