Winter Palace Quotes

#1. As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#2. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos

Anita Paddock

#3. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places

Bart Giamatti

#4. Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

Cornelius Castoriadis

#5. It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#6. No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.

Cub Koda

#7. The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

Stephen Richards

#8. I also feel stronger than I ever have. I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions and myself.

Elin Nordegren

#9. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

George Barna

#11. Devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

Russell Shorto

#12. If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

Eva Stachniak

#13. I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. Happy people are those who use a lower threshold in order to label an event positive.

David Niven

#15. It is never the thing but the version of the thing.

Wallace Stevens

#16. Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#17. I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

Ashton Kutcher

#18. After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.

Britt Robertson