Mamontovo Quotes & Sayings

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions. — Dana Goodyear

It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people, one goes from darling to dumbo, from childlike to chillingly out of touch with reality. — Marisha Pessl

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place. — Thomas Aquinas

People can be two things at once. They can grow fond of you and think of you as a sweet person and still want to keep treating you like shit. — Charlotte Stein

since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong — Jason Frisby

It's only since it's been made impossible that it's been made so damn easy. It's got like prohibition, with bums and crooks making fortunes out of hooch, everyone who might have had a palate losing it, nobody caring how you hold your liquor, you've been smart enough if you get it at all. You can't make good wine in a bathtub in the cellar, you need sun and rain and fresh air, you need pride in a job you can tell the world about. Only you can live without drink if you have to, but you can't live without love. — Mary Renault

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority. — Barry Hughart

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing. — Raymond E. Feist

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period. — Kesha

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. — Charles Dickens

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me. — Richard Bach

I always think fondly of my years inside Detention Center LC/766B.
The women and the children I met had all lost people they loved, but they never wallowed in despair.
Dying is one of the few experiences we'll eventually all enjoy firsthand, and like most shit that's commonplace, it's boring to dwell on.
My fellow inmates/classmates (and really, what's the difference?) showed me it was more interesting to concentrate on the living.
Because death is fucking predictable ...
... but life has science experiments and free time and surprise naps and who knows what comes next? — Brian K. Vaughan

I held up the book - Green Eggs and Ham - and began reading. I smiled; it was one of my favorite books from my childhood. — Angela Graham

I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead
for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6bn years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae. — Martin J. Rees