Vladimir Odoevsky Quotes

#1. On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.

Jodi Picoult

#2. The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

David L. Bazelon

#3. You are the one who takes care of you, I tell myself.

Nicole Hardy

#4. Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#5. He's Excited. Like a small boy, he's iridescent with anticipation and excitement. It makes me smile.

E.L. James

#6. In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#7. If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art - and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

Anthony Marais

#8. The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Gertrude Stein

#9. One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity that I have.

Charlie Brenneman

#10. It's quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will ...

Vladimir Odoevsky

#11. I don't see any coronation coming my way

Lindsey Graham

#12. You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.

John Lanchester

#13. It isn't knowledge that's making trouble, but the uses it's put to.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#15. Human pigmentation is contained solely in the epidermis, the skin's outer layer. Lose the epidermis, we all look Scandinavian,

Kathy Reichs

#16. Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Vladimir Odoevsky