Shostakovichs Quotes & Sayings

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell. — Chris Pine

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter? — Robin Wasserman

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins

I can sit down and vomit on the
keys
but it's my
vomit.
it's better than sitting in a room
with 3 or 4 people and
their pianos.
this is my piano
and it is better than theirs. — Charles Bukowski

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. — Geraldine Brooks

If we are faithful in little things then God will be faithful to us in big things. — Sunday Adelaja

His father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began. — Pamela Clare

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens. — Robert Pattinson

The world has two faces :
The day or the bright moment when
we naturally stay alive (awake).
The night or the dark moment when
we naturally remain dead (sleep). — Rohan Nath

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different. — Owsley Stanley

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. — William Hazlitt

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years. — Phyllis Schlafly

That's sarcasm! You can't talk to me like that! You're just a servant!"
"That's right. And so are you. — Terry Pratchett

A stone / which in its own archai, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts. — Wislawa Szymborska