Andrei Konchalovsky Quotes & Sayings

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time. — Don Ameche

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. — Pranab Mukherjee

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years? — Whoopi Goldberg

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way. — Elizabeth McGovern

We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets ... — Bonar Law

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally. — Frans De Waal

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour. — Ernest Hemingway,

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives. — Nathan East

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice. — Billy Corgan

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. — John Keegan

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop. — Shane West

I'm getting used to this planet and to this curious human culture which is as cheerfully enthusiastic as it is cheerfully crue — Annie Dillard

He preferred smart questions to smart answers. — Yoko Ogawa