Annastacia Harris Quotes & Sayings

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? — Conor Oberst

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating. — Lawrence Hill

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind — Gautama Buddha

I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets. — Narendra Modi

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these points, together, can suffice for me. I was a reader of the Bible before I was a critic of it, but I found becoming a critic to be liberating and satisfying, and therefore I judge criticism to be a high calling of inestimable value. Yet, I recognize the prior claim of the text and the preeminence of reading over criticism; accordingly, I see and occasionally am apprehended by moments in which the text wields its indubitable power. The critic's ego says this could be a taste of the cherished post-critical naivete; the reader's proper humility before the text says that a reader should not judge such things. — Robert M. Fowler

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. — Terry Tempest Williams

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. — Billy Wilder