Top 70 Anne Quotes

Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you’ll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing.

I always loved ‘The Weakest Link’ and how brutal Anne Robinson was on it.

Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.

The first book I bought was ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ an edition that is beautiful and complete – one I hope to read with my son someday, seeing it anew through his eyes.

My mom gave me ‘Anne of Green Gables’ as a present so that was my first introduction to Anne, little did I know.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that’s where I first encountered her, in her class.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.

Auntie Anne’s is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing ‘Anne Frank.’

It’s an amazing role for any actor, so deep and challenging. And Anne Frank was such an amazing person, I feel honored to portray her.

‘The Sound of Things Falling’ may be a page turner, but it’s also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez’s prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean’s idiomatic English version. All the novel’s characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

My writing is sort of ‘Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.’

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn’t name an actress I wasn’t crazy about.

‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ gets pretty dark toward the end. But there are some comic moments in the early part of the play. Anne was a goofball at times.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne’s in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

Like a lot of people, I read ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ again and again and again when I was growing up – I’m still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

I love ‘Anne of Green Gables.’ I have for years. That’s one of my favourite things. She’s such a can-do kind of girl; that’s why I’m crazy about her.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I’d have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel ‘Anne of Green Gables’. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world’s collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a ‘Hate Anne Hathaway’ movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.

On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.

The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they’re usually older… Anne Bancroft in ‘The Graduate,’ Kathy Bates in ‘Misery.’ It’s a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.

We are not imperialists. We don’t even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

I’m called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me.

I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They’re all phenomenal talents.

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don’t make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves – people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Anne Boleyn isn’t a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn’t a people pleaser. She’s ambitious and manipulative, but she’s honest. I’m biased, but I don’t think a woman who has said ‘no’ to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn’t get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We’re not going to fall into that.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn’t care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: ‘I love Anne more than ever today.’ I think that was his meditation – keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching.

After the war, my father, Bernard, left the Army Air Forces to fly for Trans World Airlines. But after I was born, he retired from commercial flying to be with my mother, Anne, and me. I was born in Kansas City, Mo., but we left when I was 6 months old.

‘Anne of Green Gables’! I’d love to be the nosy neighbor that gives Anne a mouthful and then gets puts in her place.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn’t have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored ‘Anne of Green Gables’. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing ‘The Last Runaway’.

For my very first September issue, I put Naomi Campbell on the cover. She was wearing this orange Anne Klein sequin suit – it would probably look incredibly ’80s today.

I’ll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I’ll drop whatever I’m doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

I loved reading ‘Anne of Green Gables’ and ‘Little Women’ and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

Anne Frank’s diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

My favorite airport snack is probably either a smoothie with berries and Greek yogurt from Jamba Juice or an Auntie Anne’s pretzel because I cannot walk past Auntie Anne’s smelling that without eating it.

Anne and I have now been married almost 32 years, and I am the luckiest husband in the world.

As a curator, I’ve met endless people who feel a ‘special connection’ with Anne Boleyn, or Victorian prostitutes, or various other unlikely candidates.

After attending The Dalton School and then Vassar College, I began cooking in New York City restaurants helmed by Anne Rosenzweig, Joachim Splichal and Thomas Keller.