Maxim Gorky Quotes

If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.

Maxim Gorky

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• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Watch
  • Street
  • Contact

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Film
  • Crush

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• I think I've been a great citizen.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Citizen

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Myself
  • See
  • Selling

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Good
  • Impression
  • Elements

• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Think
  • Science

• I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Eye

• I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • King
  • Last

• I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Great
  • Practice

• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Free
  • Fear

• If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

  

  Amanda Burton
  • Option

• Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • People
  • Real
  • Sea

• I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hurt

• A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.

  

  Laetitia Pilkington
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Giving

• If anyone want to become a socialist in a hurry, he should come to the United States.

  

  Maxim Gorky