Ivan Bunin Quotes

#1. "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

Anton Chekhov

#2. Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

Ivan Bunin

#3. And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'

Christy Haubegger

#4. Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

David Bowie

#5. Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Ivan Bunin

#7. A dead end. The root cause mysterious, Neha continued to bleed from the scratches with her futile attempts to extricate leading to further entanglement.

Neetha Joseph

#8. Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.

George Herbert

#9. And the years came and went, the decades. But now it's no longer possible to put it off any more: either now or never. The one final opportunity must be taken, for the hour is late and nobody will come upon me.

Ivan Bunin

#10. Everyone is silent, under the spell of the song. But it is strange: that desperate sorrow and that bitter reproach with which it throbs are sweeter than the most sublime, most passionate joy.

Ivan Bunin

#11. You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

Ivan Bunin

#12. I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

Sharon Horgan

#13. Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

Patti LuPone

#14. I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

Marianne Faithfull