Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

Ferdinand Porsche

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Farrah Fawcett

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Gloria Steinem

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

Dallas Willard

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Andie MacDowell

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

Antonio Perez

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

There is a time to get (win) and a time to lose.

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Elsa Peretti

Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I live at the dentist's. I'm on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.