Yerofeyev Quotes

#1. I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.

David Mixner

#2. Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Michael Faraday

#3. Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Samuel L. Jackson

#4. I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

Shane Carruth

#5. She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.

Jasper Fforde

#6. When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

Leila Aboulela

#7. Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

William Somervile

#8. The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

Steven Pressfield

#9. A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

Walter Salles

#10. I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

Thomas Bangalter

#11. One must get used to speaking of one's virtues bravely, to people's faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to what degree we are good?

Venedikt Yerofeyev

#12. The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

Rene Guenon

#13. As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow

Henry Ford

#14. Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!

Venedikt Yerofeyev

#15. Every day is an opportunity to realise the wonder that exists in the world.

Steven Redhead

#16. I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

Marguerite Young