Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

• Wisdom
• Boundaries
• Walls

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• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Future
  • Rap
  • Group

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Pretty
  • Road
  • Famous

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wife

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Potential

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Fame

• Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Cool
  • Air

• The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Country
  • Hand

• The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Truth
  • Jeff
  • God-honest

• Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Wisdom
  • Boundaries
  • Walls