Lyovins Quotes & Sayings

Three deaths - by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident? — Christopher Fowler

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body. — Henry David Thoreau

read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. — Robert W. Chambers

When, on a Sunday evening in May 1876, Anna throws herself under the freight train, she has existed more than four years since the beginning of the novel, but in the case of the Lyovins, during the same period, 1872 to 1876, hardly three years have elapsed. It is the best example of relativity in literature that is known to me. — Vladimir Nabokov

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you. — Tracy Chapman

I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you. — Charles Manson

Never Consume more than you produce. — Ayn Rand

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair. — Fatty Arbuckle