Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Roiphe

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Anne Roiphe

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

Anne Roiphe

I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

Anne Roiphe

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

Anne Sexton

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...

Anne Sexton

I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.

Anne Sexton

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Anne Rice

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Anne Rice

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Anne Rice

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Anne Rice

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Anne Rice

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach...

Anne Rice

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

Anne Rice

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

Anne Rice

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Anne Rice

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Anne Rice

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Anne Rice

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Anna Howard Shaw

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Anna Held

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

Anna Faris

I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

Anna Deavere Smith

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Anna Deavere Smith

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

Anita Hill

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Anita Brookner

I think you always feel braver in another language.

Anita Loos

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

Andrew Tobias

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Andrew Shue

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Andrew Shue

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

Andrew Stanton

I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.