Anton Chekhov Quotes
It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov
Quotes to Explore
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
Natasha Trethewey
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Nancy Johnson
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw
I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
Irwin Thomas
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.
Mackenzie Foy
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
Gary Locke
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Samuel Johnson
Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
Randall Jarrell
There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
Yehudi Menuhin
Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
Rahul Gandhi
