Faina Ranevskaya Quotes

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Faina Ranevskaya

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• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• What's really good is African drum music.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Music
  • Drum

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Nails

• The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Book
  • King
  • Stephen King

• We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Camera

• I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Things

• The common denominator is a love of music.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Love
  • Common

• I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Free

• We never made love in a bag. People probably imagined that we were making love. It was just, all of us are in a bag, you know. The point was the outline of the bag, you know, the movement of the bag, how much we see of a person, you know. But, inside, there might be a lot going on. Or maybe nothing's going on.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People

• It's one of those rare 'perfect' kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Perfect
  • Rest
  • Evil

• Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Suicide

• His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Vision

• All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • World

• There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Words
  • Feeling

• I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

  

  Ajit Pai

• Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Together
  • Ruin
  • Awake

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• Well, that's what everyone wants, isn't it? Even these people who go out and have their noses shaved down to pencil erasers, and who get implants, and fillers, and who Botox their faces into immobility, they're all in search of the miracle that's going to make them feel like..." She searched for the word. "Like themselves.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • People
  • Word
  • Miracle

• It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya