Vyacheslav Plehve Quotes & Sayings

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively. (Harry was something of a sore loser.) — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Did I just kill someone?"
"You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense. — Maureen Johnson

I don't feel like myself. But I do think I might pass for twenty-one. I'm under this makeup somewhere, I'm just not sure where. — Nyrae Dawn

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close. — Mike Singletary

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women. — Kate Adie

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. It is largely because of the books, films and reminiscences that have come between that the war of 1914-18 is now supposed to have had some tremendous, epic quality that the present one lacks. — George Orwell

Sacred soul excites sacred spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The book will be a demonstration that children, without being coerced or manipulated, or being put in exotic, specially prepared environments, or having their thinking planned and ordered for them, can, will and do pick up from the world around them important information about what we call the Basics. It will also demonstrate that "ordinary" people, without special schooling themselves, can give their children whatever slight assistance may be needed to help them in their exploration of the world, and that to do this requires no more than a little tact, patience, attention and readily available information. — John Holt

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded. — John Roecker

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program. — Janet Reno

One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other. — Gabourey Sidibe

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take. — Auliq Ice