Anton Chekhov Quotes

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Evil
  • Terrorism

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Football
  • Young
  • Normal

• I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Strong
  • Afraid
  • Pressure

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Slave
  • Stomach

• Coffee is my water now.

  

  Becky G
  • Water
  • Coffee
  • Now

• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Music
  • Feelings

• Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Evolution

• I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Time
  • Business
  • Happy

• 'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Small
  • Democracy

• I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Up
  • Different
  • High

• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Myself

• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Family
  • Job
  • Death

• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Small
  • Wall
  • Fly