Anton Chekhov Quotes

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Anton Chekhov

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• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Personality
  • Look
  • Possible

• A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Support

• I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Mom
  • Wrong
  • Forgive

• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Different
  • Never
  • Coaches

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Explore

• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
  • Working
  • Week
  • Hours

• When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Strong
  • Speed
  • Push

• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Literature

• If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Going

• People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Their own strength has betrayed them. They have...pulled down Deep Heaven on their heads.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heaven
  • Deep

• 'You don’t seem the superstitious type.''I’m not,' Ben said. 'I’m careful. There’s a difference.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Ya'll are Eminem backwards, you're mini-mes

  

  Eminem
  • Backwards
  • Eminem

• My daughter loves romances. She's a Ph.D student at George Washington University, and when my first book without a clinch cover came out, she said to me: 'Finally, a book I can read on the Metro.'

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • She
  • Book
  • Daughter

• We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

  

  Barry Alvarez
  • Guys
  • Technique
  • Abandoned

• The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Giving

• We're doing what we want to do. Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That's us. We like showing off, we're arrogant bastards, it's just like ... over the top.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Stage
  • Girls
  • Bastards

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

  

  Anton Chekhov