Anton Chekhov Quotes
It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.

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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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'Shall I look too?' said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
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I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'
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A lot of people don't like child actors.
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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.
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In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'
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I hate bugs.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.