Siebenten Quotes & Sayings

In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, the secret police, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives compiling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned, and all of this made its way to the top of the KGB pyramid, and then to the leadership of the Communist Party, largely unprocessed and virtually unanalyzed. — Masha Gessen

I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives. — Amy Harmon

Canceling on my big sister. I'll bust his fuckin' face. — Jamie McGuire

If you'll remember, helping people was one of the two basic things Fat has been told long ago to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channeled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope. — Philip K. Dick

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. — Perry Christie

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something. — John Caudwell

Genius may be a necessary precondition for creating a masterpiece but it's never a sufficient one. — James Shapiro

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. — Vita Sackville-West