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

• 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

• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life

• There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Up

• My game is - and I'm not saying I'm slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I'm healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Family
  • Past
  • Look

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

  

  Anton Chekhov