Samovar's Quotes

#1. The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar's crooked nose.

Ella Leya

#2. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

Allen Ginsberg

#3. As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Michael Graves

#4. You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Albertini stared at a dented samovar. "Ser, what do you have against the samovar?" "Nothing." Trystin grinned. "I like tea. But the revs don't, I guess." "They're crazy, all of them.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#6. God will take your story and use it for a greater purpose.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Arthur Balfour

#8. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.

Tim Dorsey

#9. There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue; those that could have loved me so and I'll never wonder who.

Lang Leav

#10. Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh ... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.

Anton Chekhov

#11. I have always loathed working out.

Tea Leoni

#12. I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

Kesha

#13. I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Anne Sexton

#14. Samovar is the most essential thing in Russia, especially at times of particularly awful, sudden, and eccentric catastrophes and misfortunes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.

Peter Greenaway

#16. I didn't make a deal with God, because you can't make a deal with God. He put me here to talk to kids and to talk to drunks and help addicts. He gave me this "job" which makes it a lot easier to get through to people.

Danny Trejo

#17. The hippopotamus is said to have a tender heart by those who have eaten that delicacy baked, so a thick skin is not necessarily a reliable index to what is inside the man.

Eric Temple Bell

#18. Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. The house was cozy, with a fire burning in every fireplace. The familiar scents of tea brewing in the samovar and Maman's warmed cherry brandy smelled like love to me.

Robin Bridges

#21. Yeah, I crack myself up a lot more than I crack anybody else up, but that is okay. At least I am smart enough to get my own jokes.

Corey Taylor