Saltykov Quotes & Sayings

Tatiana: I found my true love on Ulita Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream.
Alexander: You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you.
Long pause.
Tatiana: Alexander, we're you ... looking for me ?
Alexander: All my life. — Paullina Simons

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things. — Malcolm Gladwell

One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly — Vladimir Nabokov

...she knew from school that that sort of literature was boring: Gorky was correct but somehow ponderous; Mayakovsky was very correct but somehow awkward; Saltykov-Shchedrin was progressive, but you could die yawning if you tried to read him through; Turgenev was limited to his nobleman's ideals; Goncharov was associated with the beginnings of Russian capitalism; Lev Tolstoi came to favor patriarchal peasantry - and their teacher did not recommend reading Tolstoi's novels because they were very long and only confused the clear critical essays written about him. And then they reviewed a batch of writers totally unknown to anyone: Dostoyevsky, Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, and Sukhovo-Kobylin. It was true that one did not even have to remember the titles of their works. In all this long procession, only Pushkin shone like a sun. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. — William Hazlitt

I did absolutely nothing. Carefully. — Jim Butcher

When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids. — Nicole Scherzinger

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise. — Robert Green Ingersoll

CHINA'S AMBIGUOUS ROLE — Harsh V. Pant

The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat. — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

face. She glided her fingers over the rough skin where his beard grew, feeling how real he was. Real, and with her in that past. — Lucian Bane

I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore. — Kate Gosselin

No one chooses to raise children alone. — Erykah Badu

I found my true love on the banks of the river Kama," whispered Alexander, staring at her. "I found my true love on Ulitsa Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream." "You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you." Long pause. "Alexander, were you ... looking for me?" "All my life. — Paullina Simons

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world. — Billy Corgan

Innovators are inevitably controversial. — Eva Le Gallienne

Hope is like a dream with plan and purpose. — Debasish Mridha

Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world. — Ronnie Apteker

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. — Rodney Mullen