FastSaying

I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.


Anna Akhmatova

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very smal...
JESSICA NELSON NORTH Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might...
STEPHENIE MEYER A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY i smoke and i drink
and every time i blink
i have a tiny dream

but as bad as i am ...
ANI DIFRANCO Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are no...
EDGAR ALLAN POE I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX You make me want things I can't have.
KENDARE BLAKE ...And where's Margaret Pier? I know she's not dead, even if she's almost as old as I am and ...
HELEN HUDSON If I seem to be reckless with myself,
It's the fault of no one.
All things have a place
...
ELLIOTT SMITH This accidental
meeting of possibilities
calls itself I.

I ask: what am I doing...
DAG HAMMARSKJöLD I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK The Warm Welcome of Hospitality. Walt Disney World is the epitome of world-class customer service. E...
SUSAN C. YOUNG This was an accidental discovery.
CRAIG SARAZIN As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, t...
WENDELL BERRY This did not seem to reassure Nico.

“I don’t like being in the dark,” he muttered.<...
RICK RIORDAN Where the clouds reach down to kiss the earth, This is the place of my rebirth. In my numbered days ...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON On a Fine Morning”
in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)

WHENCE comes Solac...
THOMAS HARDY I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a ma...
PETER HøEG He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel."
"I don't believe in a...
RICHELLE MEAD How to contact in case of an emergency?

I prefer 911 myself...
NEIL LECKMAN FROZEN DREAM

I'll take the dream I had last night
And put it in my freezer,
So ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my be...
GERTRUDE STEIN I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I ...
GABY HOFFMANN I am here because there is no refuge,
Finally, from myself,
Until I confront myself in the eye...
RICHARD BEAUVAIS Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else...
HANNAH COWLEY I keep letting you back in,
how can I explain myself,
as painful as this thing has been,
LAURYN HILL in the afterglow
of an evening rain

i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flappi...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,

not lust but mox...
ALICE FULTON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and ...
LLOYD ALEXANDER so wondrous wild, the whole might seem
the scenery of a fairy dream
WALTER SCOTT Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?'
And why are you doing this t...
LOUISE O'NEILL Farid had brought an invisible guest with him.
Fear.
CORNELIA FUNKE It would have been one thing if it was an accident. This is hard to see as an accidental thing. It's...
LINDA BUSH A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."

-Detective Thanet.
DOROTHY SIMPSON As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after...
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
J.R. WARD Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I h...
DANIELLE DE NIESE I think of her again. Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. I wonder what tricks she'll try. I wonder if she'...
KENDARE BLAKE I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution.
EDWARD SAID I'm an accidental entrepreneur.
NATALIE MASSENET Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can underst...
LEO TOLSTOY A dream you once were,
A dream of all my realities,
A dream I can no long strive for
...
C. ELIZABETH Dream Song of Thunders:

Sometimes
I go about pitying
Myself,
While I am...
FRANCES DENSMORE I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I ...
SHARON DOUBIAGO Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look like a world, lying in surrender.
My ...
PABLO NERUDA A dream so vibrant,
A dream so blissful;
I hold it close to my heart.
In anxious nigh...
SOMYA KEDIA I think to myself:
I don't want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage
HENRY ROLLINS So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the li...
ALFRED TENNYSON this book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every p...
JESSE ANDREWS ...they'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the br...
PHILIP ROTH Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
POLISH PROVERB Thoroughly selfish individuals can be entirely happy. They will be unlikely to find life very meanin...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armcha...
HENRY N. BEARD Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
KIN HUBBARD Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest
KIN HUBBARD i could go if i wanted
share the floorboards with someone
in a place less haunted
bu...
SAVANNAH BROWN I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
IMRAN KHAN Darkness my beloved home, I return!
I return, not whole, but damaged.

Fatigued by qu...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.
ASHLEY EARLEY If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a...
DAVID LEVITHAN Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS I'm in shock, Dan ran a helluva' race, ... I feel as good as if
I won it myself.
ANDRETTI GREEN I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Ye...
J.K. ROWLING I'm representing myself in this case because I can't afford to hire an attorney. It doesn't seem rig...
BOB REEDER I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
CARL PALADINO I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
RUMI I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. Whe...
JERZY KOSINSKI To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.

-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Pap...
YASUTAKA TSUTSUI We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget pro...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I ...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator"
"I like to think of myself more as an outcome engi...
J.R. WARD We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
JACK PRELUTSKY What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
I...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I played the best role in my life. I had a great director.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Is it fair to call The Princess Bride a classic? The storybook story about pirates and princesses, g...
CARY ELWES Dimitri: "you and I will both be Lissa's guardians someday. I need to protect her at all costs. If a...
RICHELLE MEAD I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged in...
EMILE M. CIORAN Bury the embers, extinguish the spark
We plunge ourselves in the well of dark
Far from voi...
SHANNON HALE I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
JEANETTE WINTERSON I dream dark dreams.

I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying f...
JOHN CONNOLLY When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD

More Anna Akhmatova

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
ANNA AKHMATOVA My shadow serves as the friend I crave.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common l...
ANNA AKHMATOVA It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, an...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this fest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festiv...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endu...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country
Decides to raise a memorial to me,
I give my consent to t...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
ANNA AKHMATOVA The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is dest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The celebrations
Of secret nonmeetings are empty,
Unspoken conversations,
Unuttered w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together!
ANNA AKHMATOVA And this tenderness was not like
That which a certain poet
At the beginning of the century...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is go...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You invented me. There is no such earthly being,
Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .
ANNA AKHMATOVA How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From the...
ANNA AKHMATOVA A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to sto...
ANNA AKHMATOVA And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather no...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepare...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I defend
Not my voice, but my silence
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let my heiress have full rights,
Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.
Yet how slo...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No other looked into her secret eyes.
Nobody dared.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
ANNA AKHMATOVA As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Безвольно слабеют колени,
И кажется, нечем дышать... ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Eu, como um rio, Fui desviada por estes duros tempos. Deram-me uma vida interina. E ela pôs-se a fl...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...
ANNA SEWELL My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away ...
ANNA KENDRICK I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
ANNA SILK 'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with th...
ANNA KENDRICK If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
ANNA PAQUIN I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they ha...
ANNA WINTOUR If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for...
ANNA WINTOUR Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pret...
ANNA KENDRICK What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few...
ANNA NEAGLE We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
ANNA KENDRICK Tessa has an obsession with Target that I’ll never understand.
ANNA TODD It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he does't love you with everythi...
ANNA TODD Innovation is the calling card of the future.
ANNA ESHOO I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as imp...
ANNA PUMP I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I wa...
ANNA CAMP I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
ANNA SUI Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an...
ANNA QUINDLEN I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessl...
ANNA QUINDLEN It is so easty to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes...It is so easy to exist instead...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the ...
ANNA QUINDLEN "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the...
ANNA QUINDLEN What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feelin...
ANNA PAVLOVA People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start t...
ANNA FRIEL It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male ...
ANNA WICKHAM I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ...
ANNA KENDRICK The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA Onze aarde hangt niet voor niets scheef. Het is een ironische onderstreping van al het zijn op haar ...
ANNA JAE Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America a...
ANNA FRIEL If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it...
ANNA BRADLEY I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
ANNA PAVLOVA It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the s...
ANNA GODBERSEN Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that m...
ANNA MAGNANI I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a...
ANNA KENDRICK A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are
ANNA JAMESON Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never
ANNA JAMESON Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a...
ANNA JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself
ANNA JAMESON Trust in my affection for you.
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocu...
ANNA KENDRICK I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consist...
ANNA QUINDLEN Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
ANNA GODBERSEN Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ANNA WINTOUR In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
ANNA QUINDLEN Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...
ANNA QUINDLEN That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-cit...
ANNA GODBERSEN No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own ...
ANNA BAYES My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in...
ANNA SEWELL All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an un...
ANNA KAVAN It is good people who make good places.
ANNA SEWELL The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
ANNA JAMESON In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually en...
ANNA JAMESON All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and j...
ANNA JAMESON I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
ANNA CHENNAULT Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men a...
ANNA SEWELL The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the w...
ANNA QUINDLEN What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feel...
ANNA PAVLOVA Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
ANNA BRANCH The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m...
ANNA GODBERSEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part o...
ANNA QUINDLEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD A finished person is a boring person.
ANNA QUINDLEN There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a ...
ANNA LAPPE Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the...
ANNA QUINDLEN O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment ...
ANNA QUINDLEN We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by...
ANNA QUINDLEN While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarit...
ANNA KENDRICK It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
ANNA PAQUIN I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as...
ANNA PAQUIN In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Ye...
ANNA CHLUMSKY I was very adept at acquiring languages.
ANNA HELD Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother t...
ANNA QUINDLEN When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them w...
ANNA CHLUMSKY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
ANNA HELD If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman ...
ANNA HELD Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
ANNA HELD No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to the...
ANNA HELD For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
ANNA HELD How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jum...
ANNA HELD It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
ANNA HELD My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
ANNA HELD No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
ANNA HELD People look at me and look, but I do not care.
ANNA HELD The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
ANNA HELD I do not say anything from jealousy.
ANNA HELD I know I am very beautiful.
ANNA HELD Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, ...
ANNA HELD You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
ANNA HELD Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
ANNA HELD We must go fast, because the race is against time.
ANNA HELD Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for ...
ANNA HELD Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
ANNA HELD Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
ANNA HELD It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
ANNA HELD One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
ANNA HELD I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
ANNA HELD A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
ANNA HELD When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o...
ANNA AKANA My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis...
ANNA MOUGLALIS Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
ANNA QUINDLEN Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ...
ANNA LINDH We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biologica...
ANNA LINDH There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are...
ANNA QUINDLEN Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon sh...
ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct t...
ANNA KENDRICK I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs...
ANNA KENDRICK There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you h...
ANNA WINTOUR Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine,...
ANNA WINTOUR The right to happiness is fundamental.
ANNA PAVLOVA We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl...
ANNA FARIS It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
ANNA WINTOUR There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
ANNA GODBERSEN Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at...
ANNA GODBERSEN I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's goi...
ANNA TORV The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...
ANNA QUINDLEN You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r...
ANNA KENDRICK Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
ANNA KENDRICK The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
ANNA GUNN