Chekhovian Quotes & Sayings

That night Newman and I prepped for our space walk. One of the things you do is put anti-fog on your visor. It's Joy soap, actually, the kind you buy at the supermarket; it just happens to work well as an anti-fog solution in space suits. Joy stopped making this particular kind, so NASA bought up a lifetime supply, basically every bottle available in the world. You — Mike Massimino

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think ... wow ... I could have done THIS to it, or something. — Brian Setzer

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity. — Eve Best

Your fuselage shouldn't open more easily than your pretzel bag. — Bill Maher

Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity
an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury. — Madison Smartt Bell

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements. — Jess Row

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say. — Robbie Coltraine

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent. — Joan Didion

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. — Winston Churchill

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right. — Jeff Koons

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching. — Julian Tuwim

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning. — Virat Kohli

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. — Alfred Russel Wallace

He looks like ambition, she thought. He looks like danger. — Kami Garcia

The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are. — Pete Stark

Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called "going Chekhovian:" some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs. — Marisha Pessl

My pop did a little time. — Two Chainz