Vanya Quotes

#1. I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

Vera Farmiga

#2. I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

Cate Blanchett

#6. If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

Robert Garland

#7. Humans time and again demonstrated they were capable of perpetrating crimes as vile and gruesome as any vampire.

Rebeka Harrington

#8. History gets named afterwards: The Age of Enlightenment, the Depression. Which is not to say that people sometimes aren't depressed with all the enlightenment around them, or strangely elevated during otherwise grey times.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

#10. People are generally good but easily corrupted.

Vanya Asher

#11. The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Benjamin Disraeli

#12. You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.

Glen Duncan

#13. I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

Paul Krugman

#14. I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.

Vanya Asher

#15. I went to high school and university in Vancouver. Vancouver is really into yoga, so I have been doing it for years. The one thing that I know it helped me with for sure is changing the way that I think about and experience physical pain.

Vanya Asher

#16. In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

George Washington

#17. I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Max Born

#18. You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#19. I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

Sally Ride

#20. I feel like I do better when I'm offbalance. Every moment is that much more vibrant.

Vanya Asher

#21. All changes are born within.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. It's good to be different.

Vanya Asher

#23. Don't put yourself in a time-out.

Vanya Asher

#24. Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.

Vanya Asher

#25. But with great responsibility, one finds great loneliness."

Sara King

#26. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#27. I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Chuck D