Adapt Quote by Ian Frazier Download Open image “People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.” — Ian Frazier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adapt Deep Humor Misery People Russia
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor,… — Alina Bronsky Copy Share Image
“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences… — Owen Matthews Copy Share Image
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.” — Elise Blackwell Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and Aksionov, the… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.” — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program. — Ian Frazier Copy Share
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Ancelotti immediately understood me and put me in the right situation to adapt quickly. I was 18 and, at that age, it is difficult.… — Marco Verratti Copy Share Image
You always can improve and I think that's the beauty of international cricket, particularly test cricket, is playing all around the world against different… — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
A career is about learning to adapt yourself to the new environment and learning to sink or swim. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I've learnt to adapt on the pitch and, when I think back, also in front of goal. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
