Presnyakov Vladimir Quotes & Sayings

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit. — Dan Simmons

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

from Steelheart (Reckoners #1)
by Brandon Sanderson — Brandon Sanderson

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job. — Michael J. Fox

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing. — Floyd Skloot

He wasn't a tiny meowing kitten by any means, but he wasn't the pit bull I'd become used to, either. — Kandi Steiner

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff. — Bob Uecker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker

The moment I fell, my wings wilted like roses left too long in the vase. The misery of the bare back is to live after flight, to be the low that will never again rise. "To live on land is to live in a dimming station, but to fly above, everything sparkles, everything is endlessly crystal. Even the dry dirt improves to jewel when you can be the wings over it. "To be removed from flight is to be removed from the comet lines, the star-soaked song. How can I go on from that? How can I be something of value when I've lost my most valuable me? Land is my forever now, my thoroughly ended heaven. No sky will have me, no God either. "I am the warning to all little children before bedtime. Say your prayers, be done with sin, lest you become the devil, the one too sunk, no save will have him." Dad — Tiffany McDaniel

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. — Theophrastus

The thing is, if you can't tell how a person feels about you, then you probably don't want to know. — Penny Reid

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.' — Jimmy Fallon

My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds. — Tahereh Mafi

Even a wild horse can be tamed; even metal that is difficult to work eventually goes into a mold. If you take it easy and do not stir yourself, you will never make any progress. It has been said, "It is no disgrace to have many afflictions: I would worry if there never were any afflictions." — Zicheng Hong