Russian Author Quotes

#1. Better not sit on a hedgehog if you're naked." ~ Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The White Guard 1925

T.C. Donivan

#2. Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

Helen Exley

#3. When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt

#4. Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#5. Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . too hard to say what you feel inside.

Brian James

#6. may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

John Jackson Miller

#7. Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.

Shaquille O'Neal

#8. There is no such thing as standing still; you either move forward or regress.

Bohdi Sanders

#9. If mysterious means a bunch of freaks being brought together by a freak car-accident, then, yes, God does vork in mysterious vays' declared the eldest Russian Doll.

Jonathan Dunne

#10. Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

Chuck D

#11. People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

James Gosling

#12. We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.

Kether Donohue

#13. Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author

George Washington

#14. But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Linda Lingle

#15. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Andrea Bocelli

#16. If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer ... ("Letter To Stalin")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#17. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#19. I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.

Amy Schumer

#20. Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Lina K. Lapina