Vanya Quotes & Sayings

Just be careful of water — Haruki Murakami

People are generally good but easily corrupted. — Vanya Asher

I'd love to be what I have been. — Raheel Farooq

One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful. — John C. Maxwell

I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day. — Vanya Asher

If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take. — Robert Garland

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. — William Shakespeare

In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying ... he simply did not, he could not possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal
had seemed to him all his life to be correct only in relation to Caius, but by no means himself. For the man Caius, man in general, it was perfectly correct; but he was not Caius and not man in general, he had always been quite, quite separate from all other human beings ... And Caius is indeed mortal, and it's right that he die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts
for me it's another matter. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too terrible.
So it felt to him. — Leo Tolstoy

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one. — Cate Blanchett

Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else. — Orson Scott Card

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. — Ray Bradbury

We will bear much fruits, when we connect to the true vine, the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing. — Karen Cushman

Inside the terminal at Keahole, they sat waiting to board, watching husky Hawaiians load luggage onto baggage ramps. Arriving tourists smiled at their dark, muscled bodies, handsome full-featured faces, the ease with which they lifted things of bulk and weight. Departing tourists took snapshots of them.
'That's how they see us', Pono whispered. 'Porters, servants. Hula Dancers, clowns. They never see us as we are, complex, ambiguous, inspired humans.'
'Not all haole see us that way ... 'Jess argued.
Vanya stared at her. 'Yes, all Haole and every foreigner who comes here puts us in one of two categories: The malignant stereotype of vicious, drunken, do-nothing kanaka and their loose-hipped, whoring wahine. Or, the benign stereotype of the childlike, tourist-loving, bare-foot, aloha-spirit natives. — Kiana Davenport

I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play. — Bob Sanders

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace. — Gloria Gaither

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece. — Vera Farmiga

Don't put yourself in a time-out. — Vanya Asher

Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll. — Orson Scott Card

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. — Ethel Merman

I went to high school and university in Vancouver. Vancouver is really into yoga, so I have been doing it for years. The one thing that I know it helped me with for sure is changing the way that I think about and experience physical pain. — Vanya Asher

I feel like I do better when I'm offbalance. Every moment is that much more vibrant. — Vanya Asher

Life is one long jubilee. — Ira Gershwin

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt. — Colum McCann

It's good to be different. — Vanya Asher

Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life. — Vanya Asher

I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert. — Orson Scott Card