Akhmadulina Quotes & Sayings

I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it's really saying. — Richard Feynman

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see?
No. But yeah.
The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation. — Louise Erdrich

Her heart was so full, she was afraid it might burst. She had never dared to dream she would have a home and a family. She had never conceived of having friends. Life might never be perfect, but she had Nicolae, and he would always understand those terrible moments when the memories crept out from behind the doors in her mind. He would be there to hold her and help her. — Christine Feehan

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. — Shawn Achor

I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties. — Rachel Zoe

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'. — Marshawn Lynch

The true warrior understands that while one is learning how to use a sword, — R.A. Salvatore

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes. — Mason Cooley

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat — Cristiano Ronaldo

To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway. — Alan J. Pakula

And the touch of her own mask, at first cool and clammy leather, but quickly like a second skin, and the play it gives her, herself a stage, her every breath a performance, and yet (herein lies the magic) also and entirely true. Every game, every lie flirting and cruel - and the house is full of them, games and lies - is real as knives, for the masquerade has come to define the night. The false face of everyday, that hides reality beneath flesh and skin, is itself hidden beneath the fantasy that, because it is a product and reflection of the mind, is an honest facade. Sadie has lived a wary, defensive life, always urged by that self-preserving instinct to stay small, hidden, safe. She did not know she had an imp inside her until she wore it on her face.

("One Of The Hungry Ones") — Holly Phillips

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. — Sidney Poitier

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes! — Gena Showalter