Top 19 Khlebnikov Quotes
#1. But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy
Velimir Khlebnikov
#2. You are my song, my dark blue dream
Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone,
And sleighs that slow and golden go
Through gray blue shadows on the snow.
Velimir Khlebnikov
#3. As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
Alan King
#5. Write what pleases you.
If you please others in the process it's a bonus.
Roy A. Higgins
#6. Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. I have thanked Him for it," she wrote to her sisters, "more than I have prayed about it.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#8. Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
Michel Leiris
#9. You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.
Robert Ringer
#10. For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
Paracelsus
#11. I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
Norm MacDonald
#12. Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.
Velimir Khlebnikov
#13. effect the exchange of labor and services by means of an exchange of heartbeats. estimate every task in terms of heartbeats-the monetary unit of the future, in which all individuals are equally wealthy. take 365 times 317 as the median number of heartbeats in any twenty-four-hour period.
Velimir Khlebnikov
#14. Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
William J. Federer
#15. Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#16. A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.
Velimir Khlebnikov
#17. I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Edward Albee
#18. The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
George Michael
#19. Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
