Quotes by russian authors

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room. Maria Sharapova

Good Me People Think Everybody Complement Tell See Wearing Good Thing Take Tall Always Heels Room Cool Even Thing

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to. Maria Sharapova

Would Like Get Much

I go to yoga classes and work on my core. Maria Sharapova

Work Classes Go Yoga Core

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting. Maria Sharapova

Life My Life Pretty Never Exciting Makes Still Standing

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off. Maria Sharapova

Day Year Fall Back Spent Would Minutes More Point Could Tennis Feel Arm Ball Off Hit Than Get Trying Going Just Where Whole Injured

I owe a lot to my parents. Maria Sharapova

Parents Lot Owe

It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game. Maria Sharapova

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded. Maria Sharapova

You Emotions Win Important Lose Pretty Terms Match Whether Your

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. Maria Sharapova

Young Design Part Since Making Being Loved Process Ever Things

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. Marina Oswald

Dark Sometimes Think Lee Wonder Begin Started Violence Night

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart. Marina Oswald

Heart Memory Cat Like Scratching

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. Mary Antin

Morning People Father Carry Delighted Along Until Said Did Moved Burned Procession Little Lamps Many Illumination Streets Need

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. Mary Antin

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. Mary Antin

Time Day Conversation Struggle School Take Advantage Living Extremely Correctly Follow Remains No Time Write Take Never He Advantage Him Read Learned Foreign His Lecture Left Public Bare Evening

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. Mary Antin

Day Father First Baths Public Us Evening

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family. Mary Antin

Family Matter Ruined Always Got Dues His Czar

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. Mary Antin

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. Mary Antin

School Girl Hundred Admitted Ten Only Troubles Had Limited Boy Were Children Public Public School Lucky Even Numbers Jewish

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Mary Antin

Life Slow First Own Birth Later Once Those Bits Born Spirit Exceedingly Attentive Body Painful Who Growth Inner Inner Life