Quotes About Odessa

#1. Odessa is the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rises to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly, ignite the darkness.

H. G. Bissinger

#2. A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa ... Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

Harold Bloom

#3. Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

A. Ashley Straker

#4. saw religion in Odessa used not to reinforce religious beliefs at all but as an excuse for people to come together and be made comfortable with their own social beliefs in racial and gender bigotry.

H. G. Bissinger

#5. Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

Edward Furlong

#6. I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

Robert Fogel

#7. At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

George H. W. Bush

#8. My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. OK, but this is not for me, and it will not be for Little Igor.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. With the use of a map, I could walk from Paris to Calcutta; without a map, I might find myself in Odessa. Well, if we had a similar 'map' of the human mind, a man could explore all the territory that lies between death and mystical vision, between catatonia and genius.

Colin Wilson

#10. I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Jay Hernandez

#11. Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger

#12. Turkey, fearing attack by Russia, took Germany's side and declared war against the czar by bombarding the port of Odessa.

Joseph E. Persico

#13. I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

H. G. Bissinger

#14. we consulted the guide-books and were rejoiced to know that there were no sights in Odessa to see; and so we had one good, untrammeled holyday on our hands, with nothing to do but idle about the city and enjoy ourselves.

Mark Twain

#15. My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

Alexis Denisof

#16. thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa

Sue Grafton

#17. This must not be planet earth," Cone told his partner. "This must be hell." But it wasn't. It was just Odessa.

H. G. Bissinger

#18. The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

Paul Horn

#19. If you know your steps are ordered by the Lord, then trust your path is clear.

Alaina Odessa

#20. It's really weird 'cause when you're 21 you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40, and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

Kate Winslet

#21. Desire is the seed of potential.

Alaina Odessa

#22. The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

Wole Soyinka

#23. CAN is the enemy of DO.

Alaina Odessa

#24. Give yourself permission to honor and follow the God-given desires of your heart.

Alaina Odessa

#25. Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

Tina Brown

#26. Silence will speak
If given an ear;
Stillness is the movement
Of our atmosphere;
Circles have sides
When we draw the line;
Death is sleep
In limited time.

Alaina Odessa

#27. I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency.

Patty Griffin

#28. I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear.
'It's good practice for you,' she replied,her lips moving against his skin.
'Tomorrow,fishnets.'
Against her side,warm and familiar,she felt him laugh.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

Eva Mendes

#30. Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

Conan O'Brien

#31. It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.

Lora Leigh

#32. I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

William Shakespeare