Chekhov Books Quotes

#1. I was here on earth because I chose to be.

John Cheever

#2. Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

Anton Chekhov

#3. Within a year Ivan Dmitritch was completely forgotten in the town, and his books, heaped up by his landlady in a sledge in the shed, were pulled to pieces by boys.

Anton Chekhov

#4. Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov

#5. I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

Nicolas Cage

#6. In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms

Anton Chekhov

#7. Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

#8. Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.

Susan Ward

#9. In dream consciousness ... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Pir Vilayat Khan

#10. It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Anton Chekhov

#11. I am a man of cultivation; I have studied various remarkable books, but I cannot fathom the direction of my preferences; do I want to live or do I want to shoot myself, so to speak? But in order to be ready for all contingencies, I always carry a revolver in my pocket.

Anton Chekhov

#12. Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

Bunny Yeager

#13. President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.

John F. Kerry

#14. We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

John Arlott

#15. His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.

Anton Chekhov

#16. A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Richard Engel

#17. I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Jane Austen

#18. These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

Anton Chekhov