Shumov Paintings Quotes & Sayings

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings. — Kingsley Amis

Change requires courage — Scott Allan

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell. — Adolf Hitler

The announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith

I wanna hear it, I wanna hear it from each and every one of you. I wanna hear it from the kids, the men, the women. I wanna hear it from every single person in this arena. I want you to stand up out of your seat, I want you to get up and do what you should have done a long time ago! I want you to admit that you were wrong! All of you! You all were wrong! Each and every single one of you! I made it! — The Miz

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. — Patricia Hampl

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers

I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars. — Sanober Khan

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory. — P. J. O'Rourke