Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Quotes & Sayings

( ... ) I headed over the river to the address listed on Mr Wilkinson's driving licence to see whether there was anyone who loved him enough to kill him. — Ben Aaronovitch

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do. — John Hodgman

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation. — Rahm Emanuel

This November, with the re-election of President Barack Obama, this generation of Americans will ever expand upon the hope, the truth and the promise of America. — Cory Booker

It was once said that religion explains in terms of agents what science explains in terms of processes. — Anthony Peake

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected. — P. J. O'Rourke

She looks at me. She does. She. — Patrick Ness

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift. — Timothy Keller

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. — Gene Wolfe

I didn't mince my words, I said inappropriate crap, I acted inappropriately, and seemingly King found all of this endearing for whatever reason. — L. H. Cosway

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand. — Elizabeth Berg

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me. — Seth Rogen

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. — Jonathan Dimbleby

[on Purgatory] It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated
open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all. — Dorothy L. Sayers