Koschei Quotes

#1. War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell.
And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well.
There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the skies,
the demon Baba Yaga flies.
There Tsar Koschei,
he wastes away,
poring over his pale gold.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!

Catherynne M Valente

#5. What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

#7. I've always wanted to do a period piece.

Kate Mara

#8. But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. You'll have something to ride on that doesn't make your cock look as small as that gaudy turd.

James S.A. Corey

#10. I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Kyra Sedgwick

#11. The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.

Majid Khadduri

#12. When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces

Theresa Grentz

#13. Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.

Steven Saylor

#14. I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#15. Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Anthony Burgess

#16. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar N. Bradley

#17. When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Gerard Way

#20. Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.

Catherynne M Valente

#21. We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Alberto Fujimori

#22. I am a Divine, magnificent expression of life, and deserve the very best. I accept miracles. I accept healing. I accept wholeness. And most of all, I accept myself. I am precious, and I cherish who I am.

Louise Hay