Vyshny Quotes

#1. Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyok
in the rain on a drizzly solo trek,
said, "forgetting my sweater
has made me much wetter.
I certainly do miss my polo-neck."
- Arthur Shappey, Limerick, Cabin Pressure

John David Finnemore

#2. But I guess you never really know some people. Sometimes they can be wonderful; sometimes they can be the absolute worst. You just have to decide how much of either you can accept.

Zoe Sugg

#3. When I want to really eat great, I eat at home when my wife cooks.

Sirio Maccioni

#4. I've been asked to pose for Playboy.

Elizabeth Jagger

#5. If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

Andy Pettitte

#6. Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

Gregory Bateson

#7. I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window. ... Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.

Greg Rucka

#9. He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life.

Evelyn Underhill

#10. Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we'd still have something like this. That it turns out we're not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.

Kent Haruf

#11. One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

Sean Covey

#12. But I couldn't block out the memories, false or not. Couldn't block out the internal pain I shouldn't even be able to feel. Couldn't keep those annoying phony tears that felt so, so real from flowing.

Debra Driza

#13. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke