Mikhail Tanner Quotes

Mikhail had come striding towards us with guardian efficiency, ready to find out what task I had in mind. He came to a screeching halt when he saw Sonya get out of the car. So did she. They both stood frozen, eyes wider that seemed physically possible. I knew then that the rest of us had ceased to exist, as had all our intrigue, missions, and ... well, the world. In that moment, only the two of them existed.
Sonya gave a strangled cry and then ran forward. This jolted him awake, in time to wrap her in his arms as she threw herself against him. She started crying, and I could see tears on his face too. He brushed her back and cupped her cheeks, staring down at her and repeating over and over, "It's you ... it's you ... it's you ... "
Sonya tried to wipe her eyes, but it didn't do much good. "Mikhail -I'm sorry-I'm sorry-"
"It doesn't matter." he kissed her and pulled back only enough to look into her eyes. "It doesn't matter. Nothing matters except that we're together again. ~ Richelle Mead

Lesson learned: when people are used to your resting-bitch face, it's just better to stick to it. ~ M.P. Tanner

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married? ~ Mikhail Prokhorov

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. It's frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fingers. It's as if you crawled into my head and my heart, even my body, and I can't get you out. ~ Christine Feehan

We won't survive if someone loses their nerves in the current tension. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

This is a profoundly universal laughter, a laughter that contains a whole outlook on the world. ~ Mikhail Bakhtin

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. ~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road. ~ Mikhail Turovsky

At times of profound, fundamental change in the foundations of social development it is not only senseless but impossible to expect some sort of previously worked out "model" or a clear-cut outline of the transformations that will take place. This does not mean, however, the absence of a definite goal for the reforms, a distinct conception of their content and the main direction of their development. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I challenge you to a duel! screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why? ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman ...
'You never can tell ... ' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal! ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself. ~ Mikhail Lermontov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people. ~ Mikhail Sholokhov

A country bent on conquest is necessarily a country internally enslaved. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

Listen to me carefully, child. I do not wish to glorify theft. There are people in this world who think they are better than others, deserve more. People who would rob their grandmother of her last coin and laugh as they did it. I have no time for such people. To move quietly, to be quick of hand and eye, that is a gift. If you use it to hurt others, even in a small way, you betray yourself and everyone around you. ~ Lian Tanner

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. ~ Mikhail Naimy

Having your loved ones near you is the only important thing, and everything else has little meaning. ~ Mikhail Shishkin

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005. ~ Teri Hatcher

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. ~ Mikhail Turovsky

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat. ~ Tanner Colby

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Ever since poets have written and women have read them (for which the poets should be most deeply grateful) women have been called angels so many times that, in very truth, in their simplicity of soul, they have believed the compliment, forgetting that, for money, the same poets have glorified Nero as a demigod ... ~ Mikhail Lermontov

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ~ Mikhail Bakunin