Annie Barrows famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
-- Annie Barrows

#Book #Talking #Receiving
I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.
-- Annie Barrows

#Champagne #Grown Women
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
-- Annie Barrows

#Book
Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
-- Annie Barrows

#Mind #Be Kind #Cry
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
-- Annie Barrows

#Stories #Ends #Company
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
-- Annie Barrows

#Lonely #Thinking #Mind

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe thatâ€™s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

Annie Barrows famous quotes

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