Annie Quotes

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

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 wings on the way down.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Then why did you tell me?

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

We live in all we seek.

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

What we fear we often rage against.