Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.
Quotes to Explore
-
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
-
First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
-
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
-
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
-
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
-
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
-
People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
-
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
-
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
-
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-
He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
-
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
-
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
-
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
-
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
-
Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
-
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
-
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.
