Wladimir Kaminer Quotes

#1. A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

Amy Sedaris

#2. Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him, though they were meaningless.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

Fred Thompson

#4. I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

Joan Caulfield

#5. It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.

Tom Petty

#6. If Harry had not known who lived there, he would have guessed at a rich, fussy old lady.

J.K. Rowling

#7. I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Jane Fonda

#8. Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

L. Todd Rose

#9. The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

Mark Goddard

#10. Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

Sam Harris

#11. Artists often enslave their friends.

Wladimir Kaminer

#12. The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

Billy Bragg

#13. I love the American way of life.

Juan Pablo Montoya

#14. It appears that the epidemic of active disengagement we see in workplaces every day could be a curable disease ... if we can help the people around us develop their strengths.

Tom Rath