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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

Ivan Turgenev

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: russian
Birth: October 28, 1818 - September 3, 1883

Topics

Time Bird Man Sometimes Happiest He

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

Johann Georg Hamann

Power Experience Think Language Left

I'm just happy to be working.

Jeremy Renner

Happy Working Just

In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.

John Dickerson

Change Experience Focus Night End

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Andrew Stanton

Good Book Honor Never Good Movie

If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.

Johnny Colt

Earth Places Wash Away Most Pacific

I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.

Tomi Adeyemi

Children Experience Child Growing Up

The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.

Brendan I. Koerner

Business Time Day Rest Sunday Ideal

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Story You Go Want Never Him

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

Stars Hero Romantic People Never

'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.

Phoebe Robinson

Fun World Band Sound Real Fans

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

Paulina Rubio

I Am City Born Mexico I Was Born Am

I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.

Shawn Mendes

Lion Remember Long I Can Little Leo