Quotes About Baku

#1. I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly.
"You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. The gusty wind Khazri swept through Baku, scouring every crevice, leaving behind air so pristine that it sparkled in the ginger sun like my mama's favorite crystal vase.

Ella Leya

#3. The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

Ouida

#4. I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Coolio

#5. I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#6. I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing.

Joan Juliet Buck

#7. Attending a snooty party meant wearing shoes designed by sadistic trolls and dressing to compete with women born to make fashion statements.' (Abbie)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Carl Jung

#9. If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

Charles Saatchi

#10. Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#11. Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.

Margery Wilson

#12. Unattached details take all the sparkle out of your conversation.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want."
"Hey, what about the ugly ones?"
"The ugly ones." She poked her tongue out. "It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.

Hanif Kureishi

#14. She doesn't have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. She has all kinds of choices and possibilities, and the only thing that's keeping her away from them is lack of willpower.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Robert Graves

#16. Change can only be in the limited.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. There are people out there who don't actively hold you back as much as they work quietly on your insecurities so that you hold yourself back.

Michael James Jackson

#18. Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

Barry Took