Quote by Maxim Gorky Download Open image ““The doleful, ugly sounds became entangled in his whiskers.”” — Maxim Gorky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Troubled men both, he thinks, Wriothesley and Riche, and alike in some ways, sidling around the peripheries of their own souls, tapping at the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it curved charmingly… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“...a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.” — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
“The instant the words are out of his mouth, he realizes his mistake. It’s like getting smacked in the back of the head with… — Maria Padian Copy Share Image
“She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He would sit singing, his cheeks turning red above his whiskers; but his voice always came out deep and steady, like the sound of… — Ruth Moore Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that i had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment, a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It’s not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not… — F.X. Toole Copy Share Image
“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth,… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.” — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
