Samoylova Oxana Quotes & Sayings

Man is not the only animal known to practice cannibalism. He is, however, the only animal capable of arranging it on a plate so it is pleasing to the eye."

The adage 'It's only fun until someone loses an eye' isn't true...
The fun quotient is exactly the same- your viewpoint is skewed. — David Raffin

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. — Gloria Estefan

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. — Walter Pater

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited. — Pope Leo XIII

That said, we don't approach these improvements as only a surface aesthetic. The producers and we think that these men are helped with their inner needs when they pay attention to their externals. — Kyan Douglas

She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification. — Toni Morrison

In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness. — Robert Hughes

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! — Bill Gates

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label. — Richie Norton

I would like to ask one favor though, if that's not too much," he said.
I wonder what he saw on my face, because something flickered across his own face in response. But, before I could identify it, he'd composed his features into the same serene mask.
"Anything," I vowed, my voice faintly stronger.
As I watched, his frozen eyes melted. The gold became liquid again, molten, burning down into mine with an intensity that was overwhelming.
"Don't do anything reckless or stupid," he ordered, no longer detached. "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
I nodded helplessly.
His eyes cooled, the distance returned. — Stephenie Meyer

It is not important who the leader is. It's important what and where he/she leads one to. — Amit Abraham

Do not become angry and furious ...
for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire. — Sufyan Al-Thawri

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. — Edward De Bono

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing? — Susan Hill