Sokolov's Quotes

#1. Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

Neal Stephenson

#2. Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath."
Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try.
Even a mouse bites.

Rachel Caine

#3. I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

Matisyahu

#4. l the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, m "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: n 'Prepare [1] the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.

Anonymous

#5. Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.

Raymond Sokolov

#6. Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Haruki Murakami

#7. It's the wife's duty, isn't it, to be submissive to her husband?" Christina asked.
"It is," Lyon answered. His hands moved to the fastenings on her dress. "Oh, yes, it definitely is."
"Then I shall be submissive, Lyon," Christina announced. "When it suits me.

Julie Garwood

#8. I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

Ron Livingston

#9. Make an obstacle an opportunity.

Linda Armstrong

#10. I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Raymond Sokolov

#12. The happiest moment will be those moments when you give yourself in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#14. I don't know why it so happens in life that one absolutely can't do something simple but important.

Sasha Sokolov

#15. As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

Yael Grobglas

#16. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

#17. Happily chatting and counting pocket change, patting each other on the back and whistling foolish songs, we go out on the thousand-legged street and miraculously turn into passersby.

Sasha Sokolov

#18. The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can't change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.

Raymond Sokolov

#19. Only the river is free, always changing but always the same ...

Raymond Sokolov

#20. The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#21. It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Benjamin Franklin

#22. There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Edmund Burke

#23. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

Raymond Sokolov

#24. Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

Raymond Sokolov