Fontanka Canal Quotes

#1. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.

Amor Towles

#2. It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want?

Bob Bergen

#3. I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

Ruby Rose

#4. Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#5. Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Francis Bacon

#6. I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

Preneet Kaur

#7. You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.

Heather Schuck

#8. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack ... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

Al Koran

#10. The expression is: a boy's best friend is his mother. It's not: a boy's best pimp is his mother. It is that way for a reason.

Maureen Johnson

#11. Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

Marisha Pessl

#12. The final section of the book returns to ourselves and asks how it is possible to think about our existence in the light of the strange world described by physics. The

Carlo Rovelli