Anna Quotes - Page 3

• Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Heart, Empty Rooms, Darkness

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• When I was about 7 I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from My Girl.

  Luke Treadaway

  Girl, My Girl

  "GLAMOUR INQUISITOR: Luke Treadaway". Interview with Charlotte Duck, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 19, 2011.

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• When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down.

  Ike Turner

  Mean, Men, Dresses

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Sleep, Hockey, Player

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• For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

  Giles Matthey

  Dream, Oscars, Actresses

  Source: collider.com

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• At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

  Anais Nin

  Names, Trying, Add

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 7 (1966-1974)". Book by Anais Nin, 1981.

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• I'd like to thank my wife, Anna. I love you more than rainbows, baby

  Ryan Bingham

  Baby, I Love You More, Wife

  The 82nd Annual Academy Awards acceptance speech, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.

  Theophilus London

  Email, Dinner, Surreal

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• I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

  Alicia Vikander

  Class, Two, Feet

  "TIFF FUTURES: ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘A Royal Affair’ Star Alicia Vikander is Getting Her Fair Share of Corset Training". www.indiewire.com. September 07, 2012.

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• Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Home, Dear

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Nice, Drs

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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• That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Silly, Olives, Said

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• Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, Dice, Chance

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Sea Swept”, p.173, Penguin

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• "I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

  Patricia Briggs

  Fire, Next Day, Fiction

  "Cry Wolf". Book by Patricia Briggs, July 2008.

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• My father would take you wherever you wanted to go," he told her softly. "I was pretty sure I could talk you into staying, but I underestimated how badly hurt I was." "Stupid," she said tartly. He looked up at her, and whatever he saw in her face made him smile, though his voice was serious when he answered her charge. "Yes. You throw my judgement off." -Charles and Anna when he thought she was leaving him and Changed when he was injured

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Father, Stupid

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.35, Penguin

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• Are you done yet?' Issac called Charles tilted his head back and called back, 'I suppose that's why they call you the five minute wonder.' Anna could feel her eyes round and her mouth drop open 'I cant believe you just said that' She paused and reconsidered. 'I am so telling Samuel you said that.' Charles smiled. kissed her gently, and said 'Samuel won't believe you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Believe, Eye, Done

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• You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

  Lora Leigh

  Archer, Eye, Boys

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• You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

  Patricia Briggs

  Want, Said, Ifs

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.89, Penguin

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• I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Sleep, Needs

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• Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Fun, Trying

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.100, Penguin

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• When is the last time you were a tourist?” she asked archly. He just looked at her. Charles, she had to agree, was not tourist material. “Right,” Anna told him. “Buck up. You might even enjoy it.” “You might as well have ‘hapless victim’ tattooed across your forehead,” he muttered.

  Patricia Briggs

  Tourists, Bucks, Might

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.51, Penguin

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• Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

  Doris Lessing

  Arrogant, Insisting

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What’s that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

  John Green

  Real, Ocean, Men

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• Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Falling In Love, Love You, Home

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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• Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Said, Glances

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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