Leskov Quotes

#1. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#2. In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

Nikolai Leskov

#3. My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

Faye Wattleton

#4. I don't tend to stand still for very long.

Robin Trower

#5. Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Charles Frazier

#6. I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Rupert Evans

#7. Life has been given us to enjoy.

Nikolai Leskov

#8. To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don't understand themselves.

Nikolai Leskov

#9. As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret ...

Laini Taylor

#10. Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this boredom of hers.

Nikolai Leskov

#11. Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.

Nikolai Leskov