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Go Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well…
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- 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…
- There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go…
- Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
- I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from…
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
- Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people…
- Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and…
- He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.
- 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…
- I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
- When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was…
- An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the…
- Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then…
More Go Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym. — Lance Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong