We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.


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ANNIE LENNOX
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ANNIE LENNOX
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
ANNIE LENNOX
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you ...
ANNIE LENNOX
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even h...
ANNIE LENNOX
Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
ANNIE LENNOX
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eig...
ANNIE LENNOX
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist a...
ANNIE LENNOX
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really...
ANNIE LENNOX
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
ANNIE LENNOX
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
ANNIE LENNOX
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everyb...
ANNIE LENNOX
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for l...
ANNIE LENNOX
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elem...
ANNIE LENNOX
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own lim...
ANNIE BESANT
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image ...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental ...
ANNIE BESANT
I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock...
ANNIE GOLDEN
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countri...
ANNIE LENNOX
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a po...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut ...
ANNIE BESANT
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivi...
ANNIE BESANT
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and...
ANNIE PROULX
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde...
ANNIE BESANT
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
ANNIE BESANT
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to...
ANNIE BESANT
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rare...
ANNIE BESANT
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law d...
ANNIE BESANT
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect...
ANNIE BESANT
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
ANNIE LENNOX
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and galla...
ANNIE BESANT
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ...
ANNIE BESANT
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical...
ANNIE BESANT
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambi...
ANNIE LENNOX
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...
ANNIE PARISSE
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and add...
ANNIE LENNOX
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...
ANNIE BESANT
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ...
ANNIE BESANT
I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l...
ANNIE LENNOX