Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Winter

• With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Without
  • Fat
  • Sunglasses

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Nothing

• I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Different
  • Love

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Rooms
  • Mediocrity
  • Elephant

• In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

  

  U Thant
  • War
  • Modern
  • Victor

• [Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Science
  • Fantasy
  • Assumption

• Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Sharing

• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Running
  • Fighting
  • Compromise

• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Fear

• I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.

  

  Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper
  • People
  • Wanted
  • Groupie

• There are less opportunities for women.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Women
  • Opportunities

• The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

  

  Nicholas Lore
  • Job
  • Feelings
  • Perseverance

• I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

  

  Etta James
  • Mother
  • Place
  • Kid

• For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

  

  Ben Ehrenreich
  • Humans
  • Books
  • Record

• Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Civilization
  • Capacity
  • Sensations