Anton Chekhov Quotes

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.

Anton Chekhov

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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Day

• Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Beat
  • Fighters

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Man
  • Me

• I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Smile
  • Smugness
  • Lopsided Mouth

• Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Learning

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans – people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Like
  • Enjoy

• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Know

• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  

  Ted Turner
  • War
  • Want
  • Fighting

• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I always compartmentalized so many different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Always
  • Things

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Guys
  • Boyfriend

• And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Revenge

• We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Violence
  • Trump

• It's just a matter of finding the styles, finding the fabrics, shapes, that accentuate your own body. You can't be altered, but the clothes can.

  

  Lili Reinhart

• America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons.

  

  Nathanael Greene
  • Truth
  • America
  • Freedom

• One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

  

  William Stafford
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Rain

• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • True
  • Growth

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.

  

  Anton Chekhov