Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'
Howard Jacobson
Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
I was an opening act for 10 years.
Shelby Lynne
The Internet is a whole new world opening up.
Kenneth Edmonds
I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.
Shanice Williams
We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.
Kevin O'Leary
If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
Shaquille O'Neal
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
I believe in finding a soulmate.
Scarlett Johansson
Islam is about finding your own space.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.
Kristin Cavallari
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach
Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
I'm working on just finding a boyfriend right now.
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Success is not a stop sign.
Robert Kiyosaki
A suit is a sign of respect.
Matt Berninger
Don't sign your publishing away.
Johnny Van Zant
I've been asked to sign a forehead.
Derek Jeter
I don't sign contracts for my books.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?
Johnny Weissmuller
I can't imagine a more ideal life.
Al Jarreau
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
I can't imagine life without singing.
Kathleen Battle
If you can imagine it, we can make it.
I can't imagine a world without music.
I can't imagine living and not running.
A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner
A novel is about people.
Judy Blume
Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. Forester
I wrote the worst novel ever.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I've never abandoned the novel.
Novel writing is solitary work.
'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.
Keep it simple.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Keep hope alive!
Jesse Jackson
I don't keep a journal.
Chris Evans
Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick
I like to keep a calm set.
I try to keep my promises.
I try to keep an even keel.