Anna Akhmatova Quotes

You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain.

Anna Akhmatova

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • New
  • Year
  • Tiger

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Children
  • Money

• I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court, acting on its Members' personal view of what would make a 'more perfect Union' (a criterion only slightly more restrictive than a 'more perfect world') can impose its own favored social and economic dispositions nationwide.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • World
  • Perfect

• O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mindTill it is hush’d and smooth!

  

  John Keats
  • Sleep
  • Magic
  • Sea

• To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Proud
  • Causes
  • Burning

• Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.

  

  Eugenia Price
  • God
  • Joy
  • Bones

• Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Live
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  • Technology

• You lived aloof, maintaining to the end your magnificent disdain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova