Ubekino Quotes & Sayings

The world loves a good royal fairy story. — Heather Lyons

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people. — Liz Phair

I will not suffer bad writing. — Me

When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say. — Sophie Okonedo

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing. — Anton Chekhov

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. — Anna Akhmatova

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue. — Robin Lord Taylor

The critic said that once a year he read Kim; and he read Kim, it was plain, at whim: not to teach, not to criticize, just for love - he read it, as Kipling wrote it, just because he liked to, wanted to, couldn't help himself. To him it wasn't a means to a lecture or article, it was an end; he read it not for anything he could get out of it, but for itself. And isn't this what the work of art demands of us? The work of art, Rilke said, says to us always: You must change your life. It demands of us that we too see things as ends, not as means - that we too know them and love them for their own sake. This change is beyond us, perhaps, during the active, greedy, and powerful hours of our lives; but duringthe contemplative and sympathetic hours of our reading, our listening, our looking, it is surely within our power, if we choose to make it so, if we choose to let one part of our nature follow its natural desires. So I say to you, for a closing sentence, Read at whim! read at whim! — Randall Jarrell

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
-Damien — Alan Brennert

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan

Think, think, think. — A.A. Milne

At moments we are all artists. — Arnold Bennett

We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon. — Barack Obama

No culture is without access to divine mysteries. — Andrea Cremer