Yasnaya Polyana Quotes

#1. The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

Gunter Grass

#3. Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#4. God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Thomas Brooks

#5. Life is messy," Dr. Lau was fond of saying. "Deal with it. If you're judging it, you're not really seeing it.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. You kidding? So many preservatives in these things, I'll live forever.

Rick Riordan

#7. I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

Barbra Streisand

#8. I have always loved too much,
or not enough.

Dorianne Laux

#9. I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Johannes Kepler

#10. This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.

Walter Lord

#11. The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Joan Didion