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People Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
- According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
- How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as…
- People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
- Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck…
- 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…
- Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
- The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I…
- I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in…
- People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle