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JURAN BOLDEN I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
AARON ALLSTON In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most c...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Envy is an insult to oneself.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals f...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Justice is like a train that is nearly always late
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Some...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Translation is like a woman, ... If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is mo...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Be equal to your talent, not your age./ At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO But what if it doesn't work ... ?/ and they jammed sticks/ In the wheels of the first locomotive/ To...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But ho...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinne...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions tha...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Мне говорят, качая головой:
"Ты подобрел бы. Ты какой-...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".

...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
AARON ALLSTON The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on...
RACHEL GIBSON A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to...
BENJAMIN MOSER In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...
JANE YOLEN I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. SCOTT BERG My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w...
TAO LIN But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully con...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI For the rest of my life I want nothing more than to be content. To achieve such status you must firs...
CALVIN WILSON Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form
ANDRE MAUROIS It's completely different. It's compressed and concentrated here more than anywhere else.
ALEJANDRO THIERMANN It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to h...
JERRY GILLIES When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS My first book was an open letter to my three daughters.
CAROL BURNETT First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
DR. ROB GILBERT First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
ROB GILBERT The fourth one was incredibly, much more so, much more physical than the first ones. It's I think si...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE . . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in ...
TERRY KENNEDY There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really...
PAT METHENY The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
GUSTAV MAHLER Content is more than a kingdom.
UNKNOWN That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and ha...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 yea...
KENNETH LANGONE A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for.
KENNETH TURAN The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materia...
MICHAEL FLYNN Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS During the quarter, we concentrated on integrating Bank of the West products and services at more th...
DON MCGRATH The BBC liked it so much it already wants even more space than was originally allotted to it. It had...
PATRICK VON SYCHOWSKI There is no robber worse than a bad book.
ITALIAN PROVERB There is no worse robber than a bad book
ITALIAN PROVERB I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It w...
WILLIAM JOYCE It was pretty fast for me, actually. I worked on it in very concentrated ways. . . .
JAMES STILL The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it...
NICK FLYNN Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
ALVAR AALTO The first jump was bad. The second was a little better but it wasn't my day today.
JAKUB JANDA It was real fun. I was more out of shape than I thought I was. The first half I started out bad. But...
LADERRICK SATTERWHITE My feelings are he [Yevgeny Kafelnikov] should take his prize money when he is done here and go and ...
ANDRE AGASSI You'll get more money doing a good job on the form than rushing haphazardly and throwing it together...
KALMAN CHANY My first 18-foot pole vault wasn't any more of a thrill than my first clearance at 15 or 16 or 17 fo...
ROLAND CARTER There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
VINCE FLYNN Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without subst...
PAUL RAND Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.
ASHWIN SANGHI I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You&#...
LINDSEY STIRLING I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. ...
HAKAN NESSER hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was m...
ROBIN WASSERMAN With professionals she was professional: she concentrated on looking unimpressed.
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY It was more of a sound than a sight. You could hear it, it was a smack, and you knew it was bad.
JAKE YARBOROUGH In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The...
FRANK MILLER I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth read...
ASHWIN SANGHI When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over ...
MARY STREET [The first line in his book is this:] My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six. ... Yo...
CARL REINER This makes me very proud for my country but more than that I am myself proud. In Kenya my first son ...
BENJAMIN LIMO King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a ...
CHARLIE LOVETT I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
GLORIA SWANSON I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
GLORIA SWANSON My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, s...
MARCEL PROUST My contention is that the film not judging anybody. It's based on a book which has been out for more...
ANURAG KASHYAP What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it ...
BOB WOODWARD Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was alway...
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