Fancy Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fancy Funny Inspirational Love
Admit it, at least once in our life we have all tried to balance the light switch between the on and off position. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I used to have to sleep with the light on. Like, I was just terrified that if I turned it off, when I would… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Sleeping comes easy to me. As soon as I lay my head down, I fall asleep like flicking a switch. — Ricochet Copy Share Image
I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well. — Chris Liddell Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
