Silvestrov Quotes & Sayings

I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days. — Kazuo Ishiguro

He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally - focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented. — Stephen Fry

If you discover your partner is cheating, drink like it's your last party, blame everyone else for your problems, let "binging" be your new favorite hobby, and, by all means, FUCKING PANIC. — Brandi Glanville

Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life. — Carrie Fisher

Who runs in circles never gets far. — Thornton Burgess

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading. — Kimberly Karalius

Give me a minute,' I told her. I sat on the cold, clumpy ground. I turned my back on the smudgy sunrise so that I was facing west, facing you. I closed my eyes and I did something I've been thinking about: I sent you a message. A question. I hope you receive it.
Then I got up and we left. — Jerry Spinelli

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him. — Jackie Jackson

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. — Emery Lord

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism. — Ron Paul

Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus — Steven Erikson

The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks. — Randall Munroe

Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny. — Nicholas Stoller

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. — Louie Schwartzberg