Anna Quotes - Page 4

• ...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

  Nora Roberts

  Strong Women, Needs, Arms

  "Glory In Death". Book by J. D. Robb, 1995.

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• When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous.

  Amanda Beard

  Winning, People, Gorgeous

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• It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.

  Nora Roberts

  Home, Grace, Rays

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Chesapeake Blue: Number 4 in series”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Daughter, Mother, Weed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

  Patricia Briggs

  Powerful, People, World

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.116, Penguin

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• He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

  Patricia Briggs

  Long, Brave, Taught

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.116, Penguin

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• Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Heart, Sorrow, Needs

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• At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Atheist, Growing Up, Men

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Generosity, Giving

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

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• I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And I've never even met a Sookie in my life. Sookie on 'Gilmore Girls' was played by Melissa McCarthy. And Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, is number one on the call sheet on 'True Blood.' Somebody should write another script with a Sookie in it.

  Todd Lowe

  Girl, Writing, Blood

  "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?

  Jack Cafferty

  Nicole, Stills

  "Smith's messy death eclipses her wacky life", www.today.com. February 23, 2007.

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• Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

  Laz Alonso

  Eye, Squares, Miracle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

  David Thewlis

  Children, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

  Mary Schmich

  Games, Hunger

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• Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.

  Legs McNeil

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.

  Alexander Pope

  Tea, Three, Sometimes

  'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 3, l. 7

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• Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Weakness

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.97, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Falling In Love, Children, Husband

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• Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it for what it is. They're whores.

  Ann Coulter

  Nicole

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.197, Crown Forum

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• The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

  Sue Margolis

  Music, Men, Bass

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• Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Men, Complaining

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• Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

  Mike McCready

  Stars, Take Me, Higher

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• The most common thing that I get is, ‘Am I the only one who doesn’t think that Anna Kendrick is pretty? And youre like, ‘No, you’re not the only one. Arguably, all of the boys in my high school agree with you.’

  Anna Kendrick

  School, Boys, Thinking

  "Anna Kendrick Has A Great Comeback For People Who Criticize Her Looks" By Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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• She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

  Jenna Blum

  Life, Believe, Doe

  Jenna Blum (2005). “Those Who Save Us”, p.445, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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