Ksenia Parkhatskaya Quotes & Sayings

Well, of
course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes
without saying. But more important than these, one must have ... I
don't know how to say it. One must be both a mathematician and a
poet. As though poetry were a science; or mathematics an art. One
must have an affection for proportion to play Go at all well.Ah ... what Go is to philosophers
and warriors, chess is to accountants and merchants. — Trevanian

But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken. — Lemony Snicket

I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have. — Amy Adams

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. — Robert E. Howard

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody. — Satchel Paige

In perfect understanding, it seemed, they looked at each other. Questions of failure, of haste, all the what if's of life, did not matter. The quiet in her was talking to the quiet in him. — Anne Rice

Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts. — Gurcharan Das

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way. — Cannonball Adderley

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel? — Sarah McLachlan

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life. — Steven Spielberg

The apprehension of ... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of ... prolonged tuition. — Ben Shahn

Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain. — Jay Leno

Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow. — Cedric Nye

You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget. — Daisy Whitney