Troitskaya Tower Quotes & Sayings

Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Nonviolence is the summit of bravery. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV. — Richard Corliss

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next. — John Waters

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. — Francis Ford Coppola

She's a slinky sort of person, no angles at all; and magnetic - you can't take your eyes off her. She's dressed like a Westerner, but her eyes have a slant to them. They are the eyes of an Easterner. She doesn't walk like our women do, she seems to writhe all in one piece - undulates is the word. ("Kiss Of The Cobra") — Cornell Woolrich

After the battle was finished and the enemy was set beyond the doors of stone, survivors found Lanre's body, cold and lifeless near the beast he had slain. — Patrick Rothfuss

Note: people weigh their highest on Sunday;14 their lowest, on Friday morning.) — Gretchen Rubin

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist. — Carlisle Floyd

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. — Barry Commoner

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States. — Edmund Burke