Quotes of: Anne Keyword

Lucy gripped her chilled glass of orange and raspberry juice. When Rebecca talked about Austen, she’d mostly mentioned Mr. Darcy or Mr. Knightley. She hadn’t really thought of the doe-eyed, pale-skinned heroines. On the screen, Anne Elliot walked...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

What was the difference between Anne Frank and any other 15 year old girl living the same nightmare? Nothing! Aside from the fact that Anne spoke through her writings while others kept silent. Someone very special to me recently asked how can I write...

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

God Help the Child

The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance of keeping people so healthy that at 90 they'll carry on waking up in the same physical state as they were at the age of 30, a...

Aubrey de Grey

Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Y...

Cathleen Schine

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebrati...

Kim Young-ha

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Anne of Avonlea

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

Anne of Avonlea

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

Anne of Avonlea

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

Anne's House of Dreams

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Anne's House of Dreams

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Anne of Green Gables

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Anne of Green Gables

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Anne of Green Gables

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Anne of Green Gables

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Anne of Green Gables

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

Anne of the Island

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

Anne of the Island

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Anne of the Island

God, you smell nice," he whispered. "I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, little Ann.

Sweet Peril