quotes about Russian Literature

“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”

“The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.”

“I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.”

“Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.”

Source : "Bad Comma" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. June 28, 2004.

“I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.”

“Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.”

“He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”

“I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

“HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.”

“I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.”