Aleksandr Tretyakov Quotes & Sayings

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch
engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep. — Jenny Han

The public makes a hit. — Dee Wallace

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. — Marcel Proust

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. — Lord Chesterfield

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me. But if you would return a favourable answer to my offer of myself in marringe, you could draw me to any good - every good - with equal force. — Charles Dickens

Dinna be afraid. There's the two of us now. — Diana Gabaldon

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global — Marilynne Robinson

Oh, she felt like dirt. Less than dirt. She felt like the bacteria on the dirt that earthworms ate and then pooped out. Here — T.S. Joyce