Quotes of: Tolstoy Keyword

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Sue Monk Kidd

I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.

Sara Sheridan

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

Tom Stoppard

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Kenneth G. Wilson

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Lisa Kleypas

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!

Liane Moriarty

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Linus Pauling

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

Mark Van Doren

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

Robert C. Solomon

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warner

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch Spinoza

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

Dinaw Mengestu

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

Eleanor Catton

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

Ann Hood

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Ayelet Waldman

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Bruno Bauer

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin