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Down Quotes by Annie Dillard
- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your…
- I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis…
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the…
- It's about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices that she's living. She dreams along, loving the exuberant life of…
- The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book…
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down…
- It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
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- 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