Novosibirsk Quotes & Sayings

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. — Woodrow Wilson

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops. — Ed Smith

What I liked was the train ride. It took an hour and that was enough for me to be able to lean backwards against the seat with closed eyes, feel the joints in the rails come up and thump through my body and sometimes peer out of the windows and see windswept heathland and imagine I was on the Trans-Siberian Railway. I had read about it, seen pictures in a book and decided that no matter when and how life would turn out, one day I would travel from Moscow to Vladivostok on that train, and I practised saying the names: Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, they were difficult to pronounce with all their hard consonants, but ever since the trip to Skagen, every journey I made by train was a potential departure on my own great journey. — Per Petterson

When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions. — Josh Kaufman

Who are you? Be it. What do you love to do? Do it. Who do you love? Love them. The result: a fulfilling life. — Zoe McLellan

I'm such a sleep pussy. — Barry Lyga

Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Cleanliness is the scourge of art. — Craig Brown

She made him feel odd - in a good way. Drunk on nothing. High on air. — Bethany-Kris

My way through these small patches of virtual real-estate - or do I somehow imagine that I am performing some more dynamic function? The — William Gibson