Smoktunovsky Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds. — Lucretius

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore. — Glenn Close

In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it. — Woody Allen

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person. — Kali Hawk

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone ... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. — Kahlil Gibran

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I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations. — Matt Berry

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition, — Jack Kerouac

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit. — Dolores Hitchens