Ninotchka Quotes

#1. What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Melvyn Douglas

#2. That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control

Ninotchka Rosca

#3. Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Peter Lynch

#4. It takes asking many questions from many perspectives to truly understand something.

John Paul Caponigro

#5. Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The antidote to joy is dread.

Sam Hamm

#7. Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery.

Susan Wingate

#8. It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget - but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

Ninotchka Rosca

#9. A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

Ninotchka Rosca