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
Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
P. G. Wodehouse
Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
Richard Smalley
When the evolutionary process shifts from biology to software technology the body becomes the old hardware environment. The human body is now a probe, a laboratory for experiments. (p. 180)
Marshall McLuhan
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Ann Landers
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.
Anton Chekhov
