Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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StoryFaceLiteratureYouSayWant

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

Jenny McCarthy

MorningHopeParentsMissionWayUs

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Tony Parsons

GrammarWithoutPublicSchools

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

Robbie Robertson

MusicMePinkI CanSaidSee

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Roger McGough

ShoesBrokenDressGuiltYouWill

If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.

Michio Kaku

TogetherBlackDirectionYouLook

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Joyce Meyer

GodTruthWifeManMeTruth Is

We need a broader perspective on what counter-radicalisation means.

Deeyah Khan

PerspectiveNeedMeansBroader

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

Christien Meindertsma

PeopleWorldRestYouPigStrange

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Aristotle

TimeSoulSomeoneQuestionAnything

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

Alison Moyet

EyeFamousYouTryContactPoint

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Peter Steele

ChangeStressKindBandAlwaysLike

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.

Scott McClellan

FreePlanDesireWillSafePlot

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