Vladimirs Kurilo Quotes & Sayings

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian. — Raymond Aron

Don't let the world tell you who you are. You get up and you tell the world who you are. — A.D. Posey

Many writing texts caution against asking friends to read your stuff, suggesting you're not apt to get a very unbiased opinion[.] ... It's unfair, according to this view, to put a pal in such a position. What happens if he/she feels he/she has to say, "I'm sorry, good buddy, you've written some great yarns in the past but this one sucks like a vacuum cleaner"?
The idea has some validity, but I don't think an unbiased opinion is exactly what I'm looking for. And I believe that most people smart enough to read a novel are also tactful enough to find a gentler mode of expression than "This sucks." (Although most of us know that "I think this has a few problems" actually means "This sucks," don't we?) — Stephen King

How can a man with your heritage not be able to tap-dance." I heard Hawk's gliding chuckle. "My ancestors busy eating missionaries, boy. — Robert B. Parker

There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity - the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women. — Gustave Flaubert

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives. — Allison Anders

For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers. — Jenny Han

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau

Pain itself, as a pure experience, is something different from the anxiety attached to it. — Linda Grant

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this. — Bill O'Reilly