A Quotes
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“Annie Lalley is one of the funniest and most likable personalities you'll ever see on stage --which makes the depth of her songwriting all the more striking”
“Annie refused to believe in nightmares. Anything she feared at night, she knew she could kill once awake.”
Source: Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets
“Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers were put to death or banished. But have things changed really that much? Have they changed enough? "No!" Bullying, abuse, ridicule, and inequality thrives in the lives of women and children in our global modern society, just as surely as it did in the mid-1600s Colonial America. Based on factual research.”
“Annie surveyed the boxes of board games stacked on the table. They had everything from Battleship to Cranium to Settlers of Catan, and even a game called Exploding Kittens. If this was a test, she wanted to pass, but she also didn’t want to risk life and limb, knowing how competitive Darcy and Brendon could get. “How about Scruples?” That sounded low risk. Margot grinned. “I like you.” Darcy shook her head. “We should finish with Scruples. I need more wine before I play that game.” Elle laughed. “Charades first?” “Fine.” Darcy dropped her head back against Elle’s thigh. “But we have to pick new teams.” “Normally Brendon and I partner up,” Margot explained. “It’s not safe to put those two”—she nodded at Darcy and Brendon—“on a team together. They’re ruthless.” “I replaced your coffee table, didn’t I?” Darcy arched a brow. “No harm, no foul.” “Brendon fell through the coffee table. It was scarring.” Margot shivered. “I thought we were going to have to drive him to the emergency room.”
Source: Hang the Moon
“Annie, today I went outside and in the snow in the courtyard outside my dorm I built a replica of my childhood monster and wished you were with me. My snow monster was pure and white and guiltless, and I looked at it, Annie, and it struck me that it can never turn black and ugly like the monster of my childhood, because what is guiltless about it is what it is, not necessarily what it does. Even if sometimes what it does it bad, or cowardly, or foolish, it itself is okay, not evil.”
Source: Annie on My Mind
“Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.”
“Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.”
Source: Tabou: Sylvie
“Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.”
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.”
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.”
“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.”
“Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.”
“Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.”
“Annis's ennui lightened, too, when she saw the matched pair of white horses in the traces of the Rosefield carriage. She thought they must be Andalusians, like the mare she had met in Regent's Park, though these were bigger, with heavier hindquarters, larger heads, and a more pronounced curve to the nose. They would have been bred to harness, she supposed. Their manes and tails were braided with gold ribbon, and the metal fittings on their tack sparkled. When they set out, she was delighted to feel their power and to note the steadiness of their gait.”
Source: The Age of Witches
“Announce my sisters and brothers at the top of your voice - the helpless, the hopeless, the forgotten, the discriminated, the alienated, the destitute are my family, and I will stop not till I lift them up to take their rightful place upon the fabric of society.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Announcements are best kept intact until stomachs are satisfied. News settles easier when blood sugar is stable.”
Source: Bird of Paradise
“Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.”
“Announcing a withdrawal date, that was wrong. The Taliban may not have watches, but they do have calendars.”
“Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.”
“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.”
“Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.”
“Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.”
“Annoyance has made me bilingual.”
Source: Just One Day
“Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.”
“Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“Annoying neighbor woman keeps telling me to get a job. You can't just sit around and do nothing. You'd be out on the street if you were MY child... she keeps saying. So what do you want me to do, exactly? Study Elephants in Norway, like YOUR kids? No... she says... you need a PHD for that job. Well I rest my case. Fuck work.”
“Annoyingly adorable,
passionately complicated.
Sorry, I'm a Gemini.”
“Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?”
“Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.”
“Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.”
“Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering”
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”
“Annual performance means nothing to individual investors.”
“Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.”
“ANNUAL REVIEWS. THE BEST WAY TO RANK PERFORMANCES IS BY QUANTUM OF EXCUSES.”
“Annunciation: Eve to Ave
The wings behind the man I never saw.
But often, afterward, I dreamed his lips,
remembered the slight angle of his hips,
his feet among the tulips and the straw.
I liked the way his voice deepened as he called.
As for the words, I liked the showmanship
with which he spoke them. Behind him, distant ships
went still; the water was smooth as his jaw—
And when I learned that he was not a man—
bullwhip, horsewhip, unzip, I could have crawled
through thorn and bee, the thick of hive, rosehip,
courtship, lordship, gossip and lavender.
(But I was quiet, quiet as
eagerness—that astonished, dutiful fall.)”
Source: Incarnadine: Poems
“Annunciation
Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
Lo, faithful virgin, yields Himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He will wear,
Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created, thou
Wast in His mind, who is thy Son and Brother;
Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art now
Thy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother;
Thou hast light in dark, and shuts in little room,
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.”
Source: The Complete English Poems
“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“Ano pong ibig sabihin nitong preventive detention? The meaning of preventive detention is Mr. Marcos thinks that next month, you will commit a crime, he can now order you arrested so you will not be able to commit your crime. Anong klaseng batas iyan? Iniisip mo pa lang eh nabilanggo ka na eh. Aba’y hayop kako itong batas na ito. Eh kung totoo ito, eh lahat ng lalaking diborsyado na nag-iisip pa lang magliligaw, patay na sa asawa.”
“Ano snorted in a very unladylike and elkish way.”
Source: Down in the Valley
“Anoche me tumbé en el suelo helado y observé un cielo despejado, solo algo deslucido por la contaminación lumínica y la neblina que creaba mi propia respiración —sin telescopio ni nada, solo yo y el cielo abierto—, y pensaba que el cielo es un sutantivo singular, como si fuera una sola cosa. Pero el cielo no es una sola cosa. El cielo es todo. Y anoche, bastó por sí solo.”
“ANODYNE
If I were an Angel I would cast away my wings and halo, forever
Just to spend one more moment near you,
To touch the soft white milk of your skin,
To count every freckle on your nose,
To feel the silky smooth drift of your hair over my face,
To feel your breath hot on my mouth.
I would forget the music of every sunrise
To just once more hear you sigh,
I would laugh in absolute joy at the irony
Of the angel who gave away his divinity, for all eternity,
To fell the warm glow of an earth-bound love,
If just for one single moment.
J O’Barr”
Source: The Crow: Special Edition
“Anoint me with "Fresh Oil" O God! Mold me and make me...totally for Your use! You are the potter, I am the clay. Amen”
“Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.”
“ANOMALI CINTA
(suwung, bening, mistik)
Aku telah menanggalkan namaku
di depan pintu,
lalu memasuki ruang yang tidak punya arah,
tidak punya dinding,
tidak punya siapa-siapa—
kecuali engkau yang kutemukan
di antara helaan angin
yang ingin pulang
tanpa tahu dari mana ia datang.
Di sini, cinta bukan tubuh.
Ia bukan rasa.
Ia bukan permintaan.
Ia hanyalah cahaya kecil
yang tetap menyala
meski dunia di sekitarnya
telah hangus menjadi abu.
Aku duduk bersila,
di tengah ruangan sunya ruri
menyentuhkan dahiku pada tanah yang tak bernama,
dan dunia menjadi sunyi seperti awal mula penciptaan.
Dalam hening itu, aku mendengar
getar yang kau tinggalkan—
bukan getar luka, bukan getar kehilangan,
melainkan getar “ada”,
yang selalu kembali meski
telah lama pergi.
Cinta bagiku bukan keinginan
untuk memiliki,
tetapi kesediaan untuk terus menjaga nyala
yang bahkan bukan milikku.
Jika kau retak, aku menadah retakmu.
Jika kau hilang, aku menunggu
arah pulangmu
tanpa menagih turunnya
hujan kepastian.
Dan jika malam terlalu pekat
hingga engkau tak mengenali
langkahmu sendiri,
aku akan menyalakan pelita
di antara akar bakau yang tenggelam dalam air pasang,
agar ada seberkas cahaya
yang memanggil langkahmu
kembali ke dunia.
Cinta bagiku adalah suwung:
ruang yang membiarkanmu runtuh
tanpa harus merasa kalah.
Ruang yang tidak hendak menghakimi,
tidak menuntut nama,
tidak menagih balasan.
Aku hanya penenang badai,
penjaga sepoi,
pengingat bahwa dalam dirimu
pernah terbit cahaya
yang tak sempat kau percaya
bahwa ia sungguh ada.
Dan bila kelak kau tiba di ambang itu
dalam keadaan hampir menjadi bayangmu sendiri,
aku tidak akan bertanya mengapa kau datang terlambat.
Aku hanya akan membuka
pintu suwung rumah kita
dan berbisik pelan
ke dalam relung
kesadaranmu:
“Lihatlah,
aku masih di sini
menyambut kehadiranmu."
Selama
nyala itu masih ada
percayalah,
kau bisa pulang
kapan saja.
Desember 2025”
“Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.”