Stolichnaya Blue Quotes & Sayings

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. — Max Beerbohm

The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules. — Susannah Spurgeon

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well. — Kevin Costner

This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet. — Torrie Wilson

...and like a lot of grieving people who keep a habitual distance from their emotions, he thought that being alone was what he needed. — Michael Chabon

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know. — Denise Levertov

And who could you tell about feeling ugly? You could tell no one, not without it seeming like the most desperate kind of bait. You said, Oh, I'm just terribly ugly, and everyone rushed in with their refusals, disallowing such - such what? Honesty? What a hollow and thoughtless gesture it was, to deny someone the acknowledgement of her own mediocrity. — Vincent Scarpa

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them. — Lina Wertmuller

Then it came to her. She did not deserve to die. And she was not alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. Her land. The land of the Achings.
She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weatherwax, but a witch in her own right. A witch who knew exactly who she was and how she wanted to do things. Her way. And she had not failed, because she had barely begun ... — Terry Pratchett

As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn