Annie Lennox Quotes

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.

Annie Lennox Eurythmics

• Appearance
• Label
• Illusory
• Projecting

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• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Reading
  • Growth

• If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Same

• I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Taught

• I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.

  

  Cam
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Dream

• So lets knock a couple back and make some noise.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Couple
  • Back
  • Noise

• Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

  

  Aristotle
  • Words
  • Baby
  • Crying

• There is honor in being a dog.

  

  Aristotle
  • Dog
  • Honor
  • Being

• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Great Things
  • Monstrous Masks

• As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Pampering
  • Residing

• Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Progress
  • Check

• I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to these things or I don't go to them. I hate panels. I speak to librarians and to conferences of English teachers. That's what I do: teachers and librarians. And high school kids.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hate

• I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Suffering
  • Would
  • Appearance

• I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.

  

  Estelle
  • Enjoy
  • Label
  • Woke Up

• More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Appearance
  • Label
  • Illusory