Russian Verse Quotes

#1. I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Dolly Parton

#2. It's like he's picking up parts of the world and showing them to me, saying, See? It's beautiful.

Cath Crowley

#3. Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?

(from Retribution book 2, I)

Alexander Blok

#4. A happy man doesn't reconsider life.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.


1911

Anna Akhmatova

#6. There can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

Julia McNair Wright

#7. When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Fran Lebowitz

#8. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Carl Sagan

#9. He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

Mary McCarthy

#10. Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max

James Patterson

#11. I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

Jeremy Renner

#12. Tom Regan's now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.

Holmes Rolston III

#13. In life you will find that your greatest adversary is the one you create

Peyton J Glenn

#14. I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

Kathleen Winsor

#15. Love hugging and kissing my wife after we've been apart for a while.

Gary Chapman

#16. Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

James Mercer

#17. People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

Diane Ackerman