Rybakov Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to flatter a man than fight him. — Anne McCaffrey

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. — Anatoly Rybakov

Pull power is essential to reach our goals. You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things life throws at you to attain it. A — Michael Hyatt

My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow fiddlers owe him a huge debt, for he has greatly influenced and inspired all of us. He makes you want to dance; he can bring tears to your eyes. Anyone who likes Cape Breton fiddle - no, anyone who likes fiddling - needs to own this album — Natalie MacMaster

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time. — Mike Pesca

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die. — Anatoly Rybakov

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart. — Anatoly Rybakov

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious. — Boris Johnson

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous. — Spike Jonze

From Binet, the idea of measuring imagination with inkblots spread to a string of American intelligence-testing pioneers and educators - Dearborn, Sharp, Whipple, Kirkpatrick. It reached Russia as well, where a psychology professor named Fyodor Rybakov, unaware of the Americans' work, included a series of eight blots in his Atlas of the Experimental-Psychology Study of Personality (1910). It was an American, Guy Montrose Whipple, who called his version an "ink-blot test" in his Manual of Mental and Physical Tests (also 1910) - this is why the Rorschach cards would come to be called "inkblots" when American psychologists took them — Damion Searls

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint. — Anatoly Rybakov

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. — Michael Korda

There must be those who differ. If there were no unorthodox thought there would be no thought at all — Anatoli Rybakov

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so. — Colin S. Smith

A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else. — Eddie Van Halen

I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands. — Jacqueline Woodson

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama. — Bill Condon

Sin eventually destroys my capacity even for enjoyment, let alone meaning. It distorts my perceptions, alienates my relationships, inflames my desires, and enslaves my will. — John Ortberg

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal. — Anatoly Rybakov