Andrei Platonov Quotes

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Andrei Platonov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: September 1, 1899 - January 5, 1951

Topics

PowerForgetOwnMothersStayHere

Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

ThinkBetterWhyBrainsGotExample

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

Jennifer Weiner

StandLongYouBackGoSinger

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Robert Gottlieb

CelebrateDietSurvivalImportant

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

Matthew Macfadyen

StressFeelDoingYouFallMore

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

Sitting Bull

LearnEarlyDaysThingsEager

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

Ronnie James Dio

LifeMenDeathFateHandsCountry

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

Mohamed ElBaradei

RespectYouPersonKnowPresident

Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.

Little Simz

Just BecauseLondonMeanBritish

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.

Janet Yellen

ConfidenceBusinessTrustEmployees

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

Bruce Rauner

MoneyGovernmentTaxBureaucracy

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

Alice Waters

HatThinkOutUsedWouldWanted

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

Alistair Brownlee

GoodInspireSceneryWeekYouTrain

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