Top 15 Quotes About Vilnius
#1. Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.
Elizabeth McCracken
#2. When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.
Elizabeth McCracken
#3. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.
Andrey Kurkov
#4. From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.
Corinne Hofmann
#5. Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.
Winston Graham
#7. War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
Percival Lowell
#8. I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
Alan Autry
#9. I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
Francis Bacon
#10. I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
#12. Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.
Seanan McGuire
#13. You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'
Rand Paul
#15. The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
William Scranton
