If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka. — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are -… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
