A Quote by Annie Dillard

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

Annie Dillard

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Art Art Is Ill Like Out Traffic Trained

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Annie Dillard
American - Author
Born: April 30, 1945

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

Abigail Disney

Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Mousse was a Labrador retriever, which is a large enthusiastic bulletproof species of dog made entirely from synthetic materials. This is the kind of dog that, if it takes an interest in your personal regions (which of course it does) you cannot fend it off with a blowtorch.

Dave Barry

The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.

Dave Barry

I usually go out riding late at night when there's no traffic because L.A. has become almost like the Philippines now as far as traffic.

Richard Grieco

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

Jasper Fforde

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill. Pissing was a treat. Shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss. And everywhere you went were gullible humans who patted and hugged and fussed over you.

Carl Hiaasen

Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever.

Kim Harrison

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

Kanye West

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

Martha Graham

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.

Jackie Chan

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Delia Smith

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Andrei Tarkovsky

When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.