Quotes About Saint Petersburg

#1. What do the hieroglyphs tell us of what it was like to live under the lash, building the pyramids? Do we talk of that? Do we? No, we talk of the magnificence and majesty of the Egyptians. Of the Romans. Of Saint Petersburg, and nothing of the bones of the hundred thousand slaves that it is built on.

Richard Flanagan

#2. belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One

Gregory Maguire

#3. Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.

Corey Robin

#4. If my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours. I am a complete stranger to women; that is, I have never been used to them. You see, I am alone ... I don't even know how to talk to them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Diana Vreeland

#6. There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Henry Petroski

#7. Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass.

Ezra Stoller

#8. I'm living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I'm loving it.

Drew Seeley

#9. Only I never wish to get up in the morning" ~ Dorthy

L. Frank Baum

#10. even if you count back only four or five generations, you have an enormous number of living biological relatives descended from those ancestors. This is why it's not very unusual if you are descended from George Washington or another founding father or mother.

James Peoples

#11. I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Russell Tovey

#12. Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.

John C. Wright

#13. No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

Myles Munroe

#14. Love and mercy heals;where nothing works, love does..

Henrietta Newton Martin

#15. I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

Danielle Steel