Alexander Herzen Quotes

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Alexander Herzen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: April 6, 1812 - January 21, 1870

Topics

WorldStubbornYouNothingMore

When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

Meg Wolitzer

FreedomTimeMyselfTrustBookBack

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

John Lasseter

ChildrenGreatDriveStoryYouBad

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Trisha Yearwood

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I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.

Rory Bremner

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Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Marvin Olasky

StruggleAmericanPeacefulImprove

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

Louise Erdrich

BeenMostInfluencedFaulkner

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Judy Holliday

PeopleActingSeriouslyExpression

I don't care what other people think.

Johnny Knoxville

PeopleThinkCareOther

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.

Christine Quinn

LoveMyselfWomanPeopleCollege

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

Colin Mochrie

SchoolHappyHigh SchoolYouKnow

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

ManWarYouKnowYoungPossible

Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things.

Ashley Madekwe

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