Commissar Quotes

#1. All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the incompetent, the cowardly, and the treasonous.
Ibram Gaunt

Dan Abnett

#4. Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

Edward Abbey

#5. A good wit will make use of anything.

William Shakespeare

#6. Brain's got all kinds of gauges. You can know you're blind even when you're not; you can know you can see, even when you're blind. And yeah, you can know you don't exist even when you do. It's a long list, commissar. Cotard's, Anton's, Damascus disease. Just for starters.

Peter Watts

#7. 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

#8. Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

Jim Kaat

#9. The static's nice. I could do without the screeching."
"Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.

Peter Watts

#10. A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

#11. Discipline is critical to proper preparation.

Ken Marlin