Shteyngart Super Quotes & Sayings

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. — Terry Pratchett

I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people ... . As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation. — Frank Marshall Davis

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him. — Gary Shteyngart

Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit. — Letitia Baldrige

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught. — Charles Kennedy

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence. — Debasish Mridha

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting. — Brian K. Vaughan

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky. — Doyle Brunson

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. — Helen Rowland

Mrs. Agnew wasn't the kind of woman that made me think about romance. She reminded me of an unmade bed. — Fiona Quinn

To grow the power of an imagination, travel to see the world. — Debasish Mridha

I do not innovate. I transmit. — Andre Derain

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning. — A. J. Jacobs

A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted ... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past. — Gary Shteyngart

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything. — Rebecca Hall

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce. — Andrew Jackson