Tchitchikov Quotes & Sayings

In the end, I think I wasn't defending anything at all. I'm an editor - an artist - and I like to make connections; I am paid to make connections. And so I wonder. Did I walk down those stairs because I was curious? Because a question had been asked (Who owned the feet that landed on my basement floor?) and I, the editor, wanted to discover the answer? — Sherman Alexie

For a while a person is a junkie and a bartender or a junkie and a father or a junkie and a thief, but after a while he's just a junkie. — Daniel Polansky

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. — Friedrich Schiller

It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active, deliberate, deadly, dangerous. Folly, heedlessness, vanity, pride, craft, meanness, stupidity - yes. But even Iagos in this world are few, and devilry is as rare as witchcraft. ("Bad Company") — Walter De La Mare

Eyes sense what mind sees. — Toba Beta

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nobody asks her not to understand! It's a lesson for these foreigners! — Anton Chekhov

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age. — Josh Schwartz

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. — Aldous Huxley

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol

Night possessed us and the shadow of death encompassed us, for we had fallen into sin and lost the power of sight which was ours by God's grace and by which we were able to perceive the light that bestows true life. Night and death had been poured out on our human nature, not because of any change in the true light, but because we had turned aside and no longer had any inclination towards the life-bearing light. In the last times, however, the Giver of eternal light and Source of true life has had mercy upon us. — Gregory Palamas

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for. — Carl Sandburg

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like. — Tim O'Reilly

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me. — Millard Drexler

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. — Jim Fowler

Love, love will be my strongest weapon — Michael Stipe