Smirnova Quotes

#1. The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Lou Reed

#2. Valium would have helped that bash.

Lou Reed

#3. I don't want to die, but at the same time, I wish I were dead.

Abi Ketner

#4. to do with thieves. I don't know, the boy said. They killed the thief

Natalia Smirnova

#5. There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.

Clifford A. Pickover

#6. In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

#7. Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...

Lola Smirnova

#8. If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it ... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

Ratan Tata

#9. No one ever made a difference by following the rules.

Heather Killough-Walden

#10. I didn't answer her. All I could have said was I don't know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Jeff VanderMeer

#11. How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards?

Jean-Michel Guenassia

#12. Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Life just keeps getting weirder.

Anonymous

#14. People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you're just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.

Zack Love

#15. We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale ... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.

Walter Weyl

#16. I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

Aaron Stanford

#17. ... discovering how freaky the freaks can be - and wonder at the certainty that I will never stop wondering.

Lola Smirnova