The First Teacher Chingiz Aitmatov Quotes & Sayings

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. — Emile Chartier

It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow. — Ernest Hemingway,

Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead. — David Wojnarowicz

Me and my cheeseburgers are insane. — Naya Rivera

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office. — Hillary Clinton

I wasn't thinking all of them - just Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. He's a pain in the neck but a useful one. — Joss Stirling

One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas - care for children or elderly people - in which people with little education can find employment. — Peter Singer

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. — Henry David Thoreau

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. — Daniel Goleman

People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hire me with long hair - that they don't have imaginations and can't picture me looking normal. People literally have conference calls about my head when I'm not around. I mean, obviously I would cut my hair for an amazing part. — Rory Culkin

Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started. — Nicole Mones

Heed no nightly noises! for nothing passes door and window here save moonlight and starlight and the wind off the hill-top. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld