Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 31, 1948

Topics

FashionThinkSkinHatredLeaveOur

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

Jermaine Fowler

PeopleMeYouWrongWaySuck

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?

John Dos Passos

ManYouWrongBigBeingUse

To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.'

Matt Letscher

FlyingPlayGoNiceBloodFirst

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

Michael Hirst

WalkReachAmericaYouThreeEurope

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicParisClassical MusicClassical

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

GoodArtNew YorkPeopleSocialism

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

Michelle Dean

IntelligenceWayOnlyItself

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Loretta Lynn

MusicRespectPeopleDirtyCountry

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Donald Knuth

TodaySleepNightGoKnowPossible

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

Clare Balding

I AmThingsLesbianManyAm

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

LifeSuccessEarlySuccess IsOnly

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Aubrey McClendon

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