Shukhov Quotes

#1. He could barely stand, the Captain, but he kept on going. Shukhov had an old horse like that at home once. He took good care of that old horse, but he worked himself to death. And then they skinned the hide off him.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. Shukhov ate his supper without bread
a double portion and bread on top of it would be too rich. So he'd save the bread. You get no thanks from your belly
it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. Rather than finding heaven on earth, we are asked to release heaven by living on earth.

Mark Nepo

#6. Oh? And what was I to say? I beg your pardon, Lord Wriothesly, but your wife seems to have acquired a distinct liking for my husband's cock. Would you mind kindly retrieving her to your own bed?

Ashley March

#7. But it's this one boy, hanging over a barre, sharing his history, who ended up here with me, in this moment, by pure fate. I wonder what it would be like to kiss him.

Jessica Calla

#8. My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph

#9. Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

Charlie Day

#10. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

#11. The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Glenn T. Seaborg

#12. This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

Sir John Davies

#13. I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

Matthew Perry

#14. I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

Jackie Earle Haley

#15. It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

Chris Ware

#16. I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

Richard Dawkins

#17. The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

Judy Horacek