Chingiz Aitmatov Quotes

#1. No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

Richard Laymon

#2. Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet?

Chingiz Aitmatov

#3. There will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring.. Agian..

Chingiz Aitmatov

#4. But you no longer heard the song. You had gone away, my boy, into your tale. Did you know that you would never turn into a fish, that you would never reach Issyk-Kul, or see the white ship, or say to it: "Hello, white ship, it's I"?
You swam away.

Chingiz Aitmatov

#5. When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Lou Reed

#6. People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

Chingiz Aitmatov

#8. It is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.

Alan W. Watts

#9. There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Greg Lake

#10. [Happiness is] a ghost, it's a shadow. You can't really chase it. It's a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Eric Weiner

#11. It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.

Chingiz Aitmatov