Afanasij Mokienko Quotes & Sayings

No obstacle could stand up to the combined force of alter bound Bennets. — Alexa Adams

Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so. — Anthony Gregory

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation. — Brad Listi

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent. — Calvin Trillin

You're never safe in 'Jane the Virgin;' that's what I'll say. You're never safe on a telenovela, that's for darn sure, and you're never safe on 'Jane the Virgin.' — Justin Baldoni

I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though. — Trey Songz

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better. — Rick Riordan

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour. — Vincent Van Gogh

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele

All the time God ever spent on you was wasted, an' your mother's had the same luck. I s'pose God's used to having creatures 'at He's made go wrong, but I pity your mother. Goodness knows a woman suffers an' works enough over her children, an' then to fetch a boy to man's estate an' have him, of his own free will an' accord, be a liar! Young man, truth is the cornerstone o' the temple o' character. Nobody can put up a good buildin' without a solid foundation; an' you can't do solid character buildin' with a lie at the base. Man 'at's a liar ain't fit for anything! Can't trust him in no sphere or relation o' life; or in any way, shape, or manner. You passed out your word like a man, an' like a man I took it an' went off trustin' you, an' you failed me. — Gene Stratton-Porter

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college. — Susan Ford

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation. — Simon Schama