Bolotov Nikolay Quotes & Sayings

History begins in novel and ends in essay. — Thomas B. Macaulay

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments. — Benjamin Thompson

When I was a child I burnt the back of my right hand on a hot iron.

I can't recall the pain, but there's an eye-shaped scar as testament to it. As a teenager I used to think it was the all seeing eye of the anti-Christ and that I was the devil incarnate. Or at least a minion.

It was my right hand, innit?

What I do remember though is my father, or Dad as we called him, abandoning the polite Abbu, telling me not to cry and to be patient because the fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fire of the iron. — Ruth Ahmed

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really — Samantha Hunt

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that. — Suzanne Somers

And what will your sister do if her husband should die, and she should take another? Who will she fly to then, when she has crossed the spheres? For she will fly to someone, we will all fly to someone, we will all return to that piece of shining matter from which our souls were torn with another, two halves of the same. — Sarah Waters

'Bionic Woman' really enriched my career. It was a big, amazing thing to do. — Michelle Ryan

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them. — Louisa May Alcott

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. — Frank Crane

When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that? — Hal Holbrook

What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine! ... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again? ... — Gaston Leroux

That disillusionment, moreover, like all other vogues, having had its beginning in the higher strata of society, had descended to the lower, where it was being worn threadbare, and that, now, those who were really and truly bored strove to conceal their misfortune as if it were a vice. — Mikhail Lermontov

If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe. — Siren Waroe

Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." ~ Isaiah 38:1 — Bible