Russianlit Quotes & Sayings

I tried to stay with things until I thought they were on their feet and they learned to walk and talk. — Glen A. Larson

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay? — Stephen Chbosky

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon ... — Chaim Potok

I believe in God. Or some great power beyond what we can imagine. But I think religion is a manmade prison. — Karina Halle

Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations. — James Bryant Conant

My dad told me, "Son, there are three words that will open any door: the door of a building, the door of the mind, the door of the heart, any door you like. Three words, don't forget, always use them. 'Thank you' and 'please.' That's your calling card." So we learnt to respect the land and each other, and respect what a person can share and give. — Andrew Zuckerman

we grow up when we have to, not when we're ready. — Isabel Curtis

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger
frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. — Keith Ablow

You're carrying on as if I am being chased by hordes of men, when that is obviously not the case. At Stony Cross Park, men went out of their way to avoid my company - and you were one of them!"
The charge, though true, seemed to startle Sebastian. His face became taut, and he stared at her in stony silence. "You hardly made it easy for anyone to approach you," he said after a moment. "A man's vanity is more fragile than you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. You could have exerted yourself a bit, you know. One brief meeting between the two of us ... one smile from you ... was all the encouragement I would have needed to jump on you like a grouse on laurel. — Lisa Kleypas

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. — Mahalia Jackson

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York. — Alex Prager