Alexander Volkov Quotes

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Alexander Volkov

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• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • American
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Together
  • Six

• If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Situation
  • Climb
  • Hill

• If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Science
  • Religion
  • inspirational

• If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Forgiveness
  • Hearts

• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Sin
  • Sickness
  • Delusional

• Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

  

  Andy McNab
  • Live
  • Feet
  • Knees

• In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

  

  Dolly Parton

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Surprise

• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• “He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”

  

  Amos Tversky
  • Future
  • Past
  • Surprises

• There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

  

  Alexander Volkov
  • Darkness
  • Mystery
  • Traveling