Nadezhda Mandelstam Quotes
On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume -
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Camille Claudel -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
Ice Cube -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter -
One moment cannot be the most important.
Fiona Shaw -
We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
Quavo Migos -
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
Karl Pilkington -
I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
Warren Spector -
I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Cameron Diaz -
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.
Viggo Mortensen -
We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
Yoko Ono
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She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.
Bel Kaufman -
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence -
Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Taran Killam -
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
Parker Young -
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin!
Nadezhda Mandelstam