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Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.
~ Unknown
Bolshoy Fontan ("Big Fountain") is one of the largest and most popular coastal resort districts in Odessa.
~ Unknown
Aunt Pesya!" Benya then said to the disheveled old woman rolling on the floor. "If you want my life, you can have it, but everyone makes mistakes, even God! This was a giant mistake, Aunt Pesya! But didn't God Himself make a mistake when he settled the Jews in Russia so they could be tormented as if they were in hell?
~ Unknown
And have you ever run across a bright and enlivening sun in Gogol—a man from Ukraine?
~ Unknown
Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn't a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?
~ Unknown
Yes, sir," answered the boatswain, a pillar of red meat overgrown with red hair.
~ Unknown
As to there ever being a great military organization under him, the thing is absurd.
~ Unknown
It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed
~ Isaac Deutscher
But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To
~ Isaac Deutscher
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history
~ Isaac Newton
That one body should act upon another through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else is so great an absurdity that no man suited to do science...can ever fall into it,.....Gravity must be caused by an agent...but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers.
~ Isaac Newton
No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Kerensky, yes, Kerensky – I think we have to say one of the great wets of history.
~ Isaiah Berlin
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Well, if it is snobbish to exercise one's taste, then I admit I am a snob.
~ Unknown
My brother maintains," I answered, "that those who wish to look carefully at the earth should stay at the necessary distance," and Voltaire very much admired the answer.
~ Italo Calvino
Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.
~ Italo Calvino
I took this dialogue as a warning to be on guard: the world is falling apart and tries to lure me into its disintegration.
~ Italo Calvino
When expressing a regular character literal, you simply use single quotes: 'This is a regular character string literal'. When expressing a Unicode character literal, you need to specify the character N (for National) as a prefix: N'This is a Unicode character string literal'.
~ Unknown
In Montana, it is a good idea to keep your hat on your head so the wind doesn't blow your hair off.
~ Ivan Doig
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
~ Ivan Reitman
Curse you Sonic! Not only do you foil my plans but you foil my speeches too. I work hard on them!
~ Unknown
The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
~ Izaak Walton
Paul argues for holy anger when he repeats the advice of Psalm 4:4: "In your anger do not sin" (Ephesians 4:26).
~ J Oswald Sanders