Anna > Anna's Quotes

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Бывает, жизнь не ладится: долги, короста многодневного похмелья, страх и ужас. Творческий застой. Очередная рукопись в издательстве лежит который год. Дурацкие рецензии в журналах. Зубы явно требуют ремонта. Дочке нездоровится. Жена грозит разводом. Лучший друг в тюрьме. Короче, все не так.
И вдруг заклинит, скажем, молнию на брюках. Или же, к примеру, раздражение на морде от бритья. И ты всерьез уверен - если бы не эта пакостная молния! Ах, если бы не эти отвратительные пятна! Жил бы я и радовался!”
― Sergei Dovlatov, A Foreign Woman

“Физиономия оперного певца не
давалась Баранову. И тогда Лева с горя превратился в абстракциониста(...). Соседи жаловались на Леву участковому милиционеру:
- Пьет, дебоширит, занимается каким-то абстрактным цинизмом...”
― Sergei Dovlatov, A Foreign Woman

“Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?”
― The Brothers Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales