Nina Berberova Quotes

Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

Nina Berberova

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • Admit

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Time
  • Same
  • Blow

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Believe

• Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Tired

• I don’t work with people. I don’t recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I’ve done that at all levels from - from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Growing

• Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Body
  • Hospital
  • Recipe

• It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Giving

• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Travel

• 'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Fun

• Movies are an expensive business.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Business

• I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.

  

  Bill Macy
  • Great
  • Horse

• The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Drama

• Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Work

• I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People

• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  

  Bill Withers
  • World
  • Trying
  • Guy

• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Time
  • Question
  • Car

• Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Dying
  • Pearls
  • Owner