Gaiane Doubinina Quotes & Sayings

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason. — Endre Szemeredi

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop. — Robbie Coltrane

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out. — Tim Pawlenty

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism. — Steve Allen

Valten always did say you were the luckiest boy alive. — Melanie Dickerson

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. — John Keats

..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision ... Alex showed me a clipping from the Cambridge Evening News. 'Tragic Death of "Promising" Young Man.' ... The verdict of the coroner's inquest had been that Adrian Flinn (22) had killed himself 'while the balance of his mind was disturbed.' ... The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared that the suicide's reasoning might impugn the nature and value of life as organised by the state which paid the coroner? — Julian Barnes

The greatest drug of all, my dear, was not one of those pills in so many colors that you took over the years, was not the opium, the hash you smoked in houses at the beach, or the speed or smack you shot up in Sutherland's apartment, no, it wasn't any of these. It was the city, darling, it was the city, the city itself. And do you see why I had to leave? As Santayana said, dear, artists are unhappy because they are not interested in happiness; they live for beauty. God, was that steaming, loathsome city beautiful!!! And why finally no human lover was possible, because I was in love with all men, with the city itself. — Andrew Holleran

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. — Margaret Atwood

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician. — Federico Fellini

All conflict comes from attachment. — Anthony De Mello

Martin tangled his fingers fiercely in Alastair's hair — Jay Northcote