Moskovska Rusija Quotes & Sayings

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life. — Andrea Corr

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. — Lydia Davis

But it was the doctor's body, the sudden way he moved the folders on his desk, the way he moved back from Harmon, that Harmon would always remember. As though he had known what Harmon didn't know, that lives get knit together like bones, and fractures might not heal. — Elizabeth Strout

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask. — Mallory Ortberg

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine

The King was stretched unconscious on the floor, an overturned chair beside him. Horace was shaking his right hand, nursing his obviously bruised knuckles. "Horace Altman," Halt said, "what on earth have you done?" Horace gestured to the wardrobe full of official garments. "I've just elected you King," he said. "Start getting dressed. — John Flanagan

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know. — Daley Thompson