"I cannot cause light; the most I can……" — Annie Dillard
"I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy…
— Saint Augustine
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow…
— Lord Byron
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and…
— George Fordyce
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Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
— John Ruskin
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I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.
— Unknown Author
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I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser…
— Rutger Hauer
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
— Charles Lamb
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Soon the sun beams will smile through. Before you jump out of that bed, just know, the thought of you…
— Judy Garland
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
— John Charles Polanyi
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We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive…
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