Anton Chekhov Quotes
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.
Anton Chekhov
Quotes to Explore
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill
In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
Gail Tsukiyama
I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
Camila Alves
If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
Vincent Cassel
The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
Yair Lapid
I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
Samuel Beckett
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
D. H. Lawrence
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
Arthur E. Morgan
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
Oswald Chambers
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Jose Saramago
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.
Anton Chekhov
