Andrei Platonov Quotes

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Nothing
  • Prove
  • Accomplished

• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Parents
  • Boat
  • Italy

• I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • People
  • Know
  • Day

• I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Why
  • America
  • High

• The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Growing
  • Doing
  • Disability

• I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Popular
  • Own
  • Most

• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Married

• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Help
  • Science
  • Value

• I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• I love TV. I love the stability of it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Stability

• I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Think
  • Write
  • Meant To Be

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Farm

• It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

  

  Confucius
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Deemed

• I listen to music for consolation and comfort. I want my songs to comfort people who listen to it, and I myself want to be a comforting figure to my fans. I think ‘youth’ is not limited to people in their twenties. People in their sixties can be youthful too. I want people of all ages to sympathize with the youthful songs in my album and feel comforted.

  

  Jung Hye-rim Apink
  • People
  • Music
  • Comfort

• I look for the sources of domination and misery that are so deep down that they apply to the system and the apply to its supposed opposition also. … Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.

  

  Bob Black
  • People
  • Stop
  • Deep

• When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

  

  Christopher Masterson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Mistake

• Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

  

  Andrei Platonov