Creative Quotations from . . .
Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883) born on Nov 09
Russian "novelist, short-story writer". "He attacked serfdom in simple but powerful style in his masterpiece "Fathers and Sons," 1862; wrote a popular comedy, "A Month in the Country," 1850."
 
   
F
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words."

R
"Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this -- Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
A
"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
N
"Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it."
K
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Shubin, in "On the Eve," ch. 1, 1860."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: ""The Virgin Soil.""
N: ""Fathers and Sons.""
K: "In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991."



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