Polina Semionova Quotes & Sayings

If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead. — Peter Hoeg

I've always had confidence. — Kurt Warner

Why did it take me so long to figure out that my special talent was trying? — Tony Hoagland

The complex of seven luxurious homes, swimming pools and lavish stables was surrounded by a twelve-foot wall patrolled by what we believed to be Albanians armed with Skorpion machine pistols. This was strange, given that the family was in the wholesale floristry business. Maybe flower theft was a bigger problem in northern Greece than most people realized. — Terry Hayes

Start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead." "Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile. Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. "Dead is dead," he said. "We have no business with the dead." "Are they dead?" Royce asked — George R R Martin

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don't mess with me. — Arundhati Roy

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade. — Herbert Hoover

Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe. — Rita Gelman

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call, — Mike McGavick

Constance felt the rest of Jack, the hardness at the top of his thighs, straining against her belly. He lifted her from the floor, held her against the wall, his body pushing her skirts in between her legs. He ground his hips, making her blush as a thousand nerve endings — Heather Boyd

I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life. — John Darnielle