Famous Quotes / Annie Dillard
15 Quotations by Annie Dillard
- 1. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ...
- 2. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memor ...
- 3. As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life li ...
- 4. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- 5. I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten a ...
- 6. I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls: I suppose it is the teeming evidence that b ...
- 7. It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive fai ...
- 8. No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird ...
- 9. The dedicated life is the life worth living.
- 10. The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own ...
- 11. The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to hi ...
- 12. There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased ...
- 13. There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- 14. There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
- 15. There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth -- fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a ba ...