Anton Chekhov Quotes

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I want my outfit to match my mood.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Want
  • Mood
  • Outfit

• I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Think
  • Like
  • Nike

• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Love
  • Years
  • Anniversary

• I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Relationship
  • Shows

• I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Career
  • Me
  • Like

• A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Fire

• If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

  

  Rahul Gandhi

• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Money
  • House
  • Sex

• ..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.

  

  Alexander Calder

• Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Work
  • Freedom

• Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I got my degree in rhetoric.

  

  Alex Borstein

• The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Men
  • Money
  • Nice

• The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Work
  • Character
  • Interesting

• My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Man
  • Son
  • Said

• It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Principle
  • Maintain

• My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

  

  Anton Chekhov