Yezhov Terror Quotes

#1. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

Anna Akhmatova

#2. Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

Kevin Keegan

#4. I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

Ladyhawke

#5. I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.

Fiona Apple

#6. [T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story better than ours, and of course they'll believe themselves more than they would us ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. I will always find myself a prisoner to the divine sublimity of the Eucharist itself. (201)

Pat Conroy

#8. Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.

Big Daddy Kane

#9. I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Andres Segovia

#10. You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson