Anton Chekhov Quotes

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov

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• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Women
  • American
  • Dream

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People

• The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Rules necessary for demonstrations. To prove all propositions, and to employ nothing for their proof but axioms fully evident of themselves, or propositions already demonstrated or admitted; Never to take advantage of the ambiguity of terms by failing mentally to substitute definitions that restrict or explain them.

  

  Blaise Pascal

• Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.

  

  Aeschylus

• He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Perfect
  • Style

• Kandinsky was connected with Die Brücke and the Blue Rider: they had a concept and created a reality. But I prefer Jean Fautrier French painter-artist; 1898 - 1965 with his suffering and self-absorption. And his purpose on bringing about changes was just as strong. As a result I see in Fautrier a stronger paradigm than in Kandinsky..

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Reality
  • Strong
  • Die

• Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Alone
  • Marriage

• An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Pain

• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

  

  Chris Marker

• I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Real
  • Reading

• Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • World

• As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

  

  Claude Nicollier
  • Waves

• I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Sad

• Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Important
  • Character

• I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

  

  James Wan

• Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Waves