Cyrillic Quotes

#1. In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.

Katherine McNamara

#2. Nate took the sheet. It was covered in the neat, curvy handwriting so many women mastered and men almost never did. The top half was the message, recopied in the same Cyrillic that it had been on the wall. Below it was the translation in English.

Peter Clines

#3. Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."
"What does it say?"
"Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift."
"The raven is holding a bloody sword."
"I never said it was a nice gift.

Ilona Andrews

#4. Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements stuck all over them are just telling you that they can't decipher the cyrillic alphabet.

Clive James

#5. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#6. The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

Laura Kelly

#7. Life is unpredictable and it doesn't follow a map.

Autumn Doughton

#8. The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Ned Rorem

#9. The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Matt Blunt

#10. My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!

Nathan Kress

#11. The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.

Tracy Kidder

#13. I still have room to improve ... there are things I could do better.

Lorena Ochoa

#14. Take a moment today and cherish a thought, for your dreams and your memories are all that you've got.

Robert Chomany

#15. I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

Val Kilmer

#16. I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

Michael Ian Black

#17. The land's like a woman. Tame her gently, treat her good, and you'll never be without her. Strip her bare, and she'll be colder than a whore's heart.

Bonnie K. Winn

#18. Music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

Milan Kundera

#20. You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Michael J. Fox

#21. The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ...

John Geddes