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Down Quotes by Anne Lamott
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.…
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
- Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
- Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian…
- Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with,…
- I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
- Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at…
- I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The…
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do…
- When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.
- Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
- I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of…
- Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where…
- I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc…
- I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and…
- Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told…
- Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd…
- You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And…
- This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It…
More Down Quotes
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe