Top 100 Boris's Quotes

#1. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #20054
#2. Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #27610
#3. It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #47164
#4. Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #47871
#5. When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #54415
#6. We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #72695
#7. No one ever is "nothing". We all have presence even if it's a slight one.

Boris Zubry

Boris's Quotes #114351
#8. Dr. S. talked to me about magical thinking. She was right. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. She did not say that writing to Boris was a bad idea, but then she never judged anything. That was her magic. [p. 85]

Siri Hustvedt

Boris's Quotes #117255
#9. I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #145371
#10. Mitrofanii frowned - he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

Boris Akunin

Boris's Quotes #179812
#11. They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment.

Boris Fishman

Boris's Quotes #181706
#12. Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #208951
#13. Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing ... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with,' [said the Doctor]

James Goss

Boris's Quotes #210799
#14. I read somewhere that it's called American roulette. It was invented in America, in the goldfields. You put a single shot in the cylinder, give it a twirl, and then - bang! If you're lucky you break the bank; if not, then it's good-bye

Boris Akunin

Boris's Quotes #211016
#15. If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #214682
#16. Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #215758
#17. The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #216328
#18. You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #241750
#19. Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

Boris Spassky

Boris's Quotes #280067
#20. This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.

Boris Nemtsov

Boris's Quotes #283583
#21. When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #303387
#22. It's a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #311290
#23. The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.

Richard Corliss

Boris's Quotes #315890
#24. Lear's daughters and their loathsome husbands are all deservedly slaughtered for their ill treatment of an aged ruler (one of the reasons that tragedy remains so huge in Asia)

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #330454
#25. One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #348639
#26. The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #360601
#27. Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #407712
#28. What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #410582
#29. Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine.
It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #573917
#30. The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

James Kirkup

Boris's Quotes #612536
#31. There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #613659
#32. I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish.
- Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #663987
#33. There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #677969
#34. It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #703294
#35. There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #705959
#36. Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Ken Livingstone

Boris's Quotes #706059
#37. Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people."
"Yeah, right," said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But I don't do anything about it.

Terry Pratchett

Boris's Quotes #709865
#38. In programming, it's often the buts in the specification that kill you.

Boris Beizer

Boris's Quotes #724548
#39. We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #731688
#40. There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war of necessity and we have to fight it if we want to assure our way of life even if it's the wrong one.

Boris Zubry

Boris's Quotes #747690
#41. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

Boris Gelfand

Boris's Quotes #749055
#42. I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.

Nigel Evans

Boris's Quotes #759813
#43. We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #773894
#44. Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #809551
#45. You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #894808
#46. Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

Boris Vian

Boris's Quotes #903677
#47. I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #927717
#48. Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels.

Boris Akunin

Boris's Quotes #948228
#49. I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #966938
#50. I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #974907
#51. You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Boris Vallejo

Boris's Quotes #990943
#52. Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1007083
#53. Testing proves a programmer's failure. Debugging is the programmer's vindication.

Boris Beizer

Boris's Quotes #1066463
#54. The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #1068105
#55. Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #1079197
#56. If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1097885
#57. If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

Sergei Lukyanenko

Boris's Quotes #1131509
#58. I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

Liam Fox

Boris's Quotes #1133227
#59. I don't need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that's what I've chosen to do.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #1139655
#60. You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1141395
#61. Your Imperial Highness, will you do me the honor of this dance?" I turned to see Miechen's twelve-year-old son, Boris Vladimirovich, looking at me solemnly.
"Of course," I said with a polite curtsy. Angels and ministers of grace, defend me.

Robin Bridges

Boris's Quotes #1142364
#62. You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1149589
#63. As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1159988
#64. I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions ... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #1175845
#65. I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

Boris Trajkovski

Boris's Quotes #1194787
#66. If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1221627
#67. During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist ... literature had stopped.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1227041
#68. If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1248984
#69. Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1265188
#70. Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1293239
#71. I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1301943
#72. Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1330139
#73. The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #1357501
#74. It's alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of course. And it's not like him.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1363257
#75. Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

Rana Dasgupta

Boris's Quotes #1398434
#76. I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1408942
#77. Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1411478
#78. I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #1420740
#79. That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #1442513
#80. Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1444313
#81. We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1477442
#82. Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

Boris Vian

Boris's Quotes #1486517
#83. Can't I?" he said. "Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant's head." He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.

Boris Fishman

Boris's Quotes #1492458
#84. What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1501470
#85. I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Boris Spassky

Boris's Quotes #1528869
#86. A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1556857
#87. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1565823
#88. So ... Boris. Are you evil?' [said the Doctor].
'Not at all, my dear sir,' chuckled Boris.
'You just chuckled,' groaned the Doctor. 'Chuckling's a dead givaway in my books. Along with putting your hands on your hips and snogging another man's wife.

James Goss

Boris's Quotes #1577382
#89. 'Son of Frankenstein' is never talked about in the same tone as James Whale's 1931 'Frankenstein.' But it should be. It was Boris Karloff's last appearance in the Frankenstein series and stars Donnie Dunagan, then a child actor.

Mark Gatiss

Boris's Quotes #1616525
#90. It's not for everyone. Some people just haven't got it. Maybe he [Boris Johnson] is one of them.

Ruth Davidson

Boris's Quotes #1662757
#91. That's right. Five minutes into the all-hands meeting, the fundamental values of this totalitarian society had received the support of the vast majority of the crew. So, let me tell you, when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism. Boris

Liu Cixin

Boris's Quotes #1685431
#92. Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Boris Kodjoe

Boris's Quotes #1695864
#93. I was sent by God to torment / myself, my family, everyone / whom it's a sin to torment.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1728254
#94. The rehearsal of Grandfather's arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava.

Boris Fishman

Boris's Quotes #1751274
#95. In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1754934
#96. Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

Boris Johnson

Boris's Quotes #1781083
#97. That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Boris Pasternak

Boris's Quotes #1785248
#98. One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.

Boris Beizer

Boris's Quotes #1796470
#99. An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Boris Becker

Boris's Quotes #1815666
#100. I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

Boris Yeltsin

Boris's Quotes #1831816

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