Alexander Jablokov Quotes

When I was young," I say, beginning with the most painful words an old man knows.

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• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Support
  • Wall
  • New

• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • You
  • Better

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • God
  • Fear

• Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Mysterious

• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Time

• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Book
  • Dog

• I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Up

• Q: What language is not written in French? A: Sanskrit. In French, it's known as sanskrit or sanscrit, which you can interpret as sans (without) + écrit (written) https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157813707206840

  

  Anu Garg

• You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Boss

• The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Society
  • Person

• Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Different
  • Song
  • Words

• The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Night

• When I was young," I say, beginning with the most painful words an old man knows.

  

  Alexander Jablokov
  • Words
  • Knows
  • Young