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Thing 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 wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
- 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.…
- 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…
- Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
- Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,…
- We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by…
- It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing…
- How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as…
- 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…
- why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?
- I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a…
- There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,…
- 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…
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
- There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong