Veranostone Quotes

#1. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

Anna Akhmatova

#2. My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

Les Dawson

#3. A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

Henning Mankell

#4. What you have to understand, he says, is the mentality of the Iraqi versus the mentality of the average Westerner.

Richard House

#5. I've learned that the only things we are in control of are the choices we make at any one given moment.

Patricia Vanasse

#6. Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Part of the reason forward-thinking media networks like Twitter succeed is because people3 want to believe that every immaterial thing they do is pertinent by default; it's interesting because it happened to them, which translates as interesting to all.

Chuck Klosterman

#8. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Roger Kahn