Grigorij Perelman Quotes & Sayings

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior. — John Lautner

This inclination to ignore problems is once again a simple manifestation of an unwillingness to delay gratification. Confronting problems is, as I have said, painful. To willingly confront a problem early, before we are forced to confront it by circumstances, means to put aside something pleasant or less painful for something more painful. It is choosing to suffer now in the hope of future gratification rather than choosing to continue present gratification in the hope that future suffering will not be necessary. — M. Scott Peck

How'd you like to come here and give your knight in shining armor a big ol' kiss? — Lynn Kurland

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me. — Nickolas Ashford

The way to God was opened, not by the life of Jesus or the example of Jesus, not even by the teaching of Jesus, but by the death of Jesus on the cross. "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. ... " (1 Peter 3:18). — Warren W. Wiersbe

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job. — Nora Ephron

Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals. — Donald O'Donovan

Britain's relationship with America might be described as 'special', but only if by 'special' we mean 'frequently dysfunctional'. — Ben Crystal

Prevent your day at morning. — Ben Jonson

My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov

Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results. — Lynn Blackmar

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. — Edwin Percy Whipple

Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can this be a possible indication of Confederate insurgents still living and working in Virginia? Must research further.) — Ally Carter

This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate; to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and rise again with every sun. — Mark Henwick