Anton Chekhov Quotes

'Crutch is coming! Crutch! The old horseradish.'

Anton Chekhov

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• I never really learned photography.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Learned

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • Result
  • Recruiting

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Up
  • Spring

• CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Company
  • Name

• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Great
  • Find
  • New York

• I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Now
  • Little
  • Broadway

• It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Politics

• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Image
  • Daddy

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Like
  • Always

• I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Think
  • Thoughts

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...

  

  Larry Wall

• Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Differences

• I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.

  

  Harper Reed
  • People
  • Experiences
  • Products

• I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Good

• Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Men
  • Why
  • Training

• There is really nothing like doing a play in New York.

  

  Jonathan Groff

• 'Crutch is coming! Crutch! The old horseradish.'

  

  Anton Chekhov