Dostoevskian Quotes

#1. Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches;
look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!

John Tagliabue

#2. Suddenly, gentlemen of the jury, I felt a Dostoevskian grin dawning (through the very grimace that twisted my lips) like a distant and terrible sun.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

Frederick Lenz

#5. With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Herbert Gold

#6. I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Charles Babbage

#7. But you invite ... "
"I invite a bit of military nonsense."
"That's what I ... "
"Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson."
"What lesson?"
"The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.

Frank Herbert

#8. I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.

Soundarya

#9. By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Ramana Maharshi

#10. I'm going to tell her I've fallen for one of my captors and the wedding is off

Marissa Meyer

#11. No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Dean Acheson

#12. An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

John Roberts

#13. Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Two."
Three."
Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Ian Falconer

#14. The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain