Nikolai Gogol Quotes

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

Nikolai Gogol

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• When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Peace
  • Prosperity

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Sky

• A notable scheme has occurred to me.

  

  Jack Vance

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Real
  • Trump

• Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.

  

  Aeschylus

• Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • Political
  • Fear

• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Soul

• Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life

• The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Up
  • Done

• What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Lead
  • Conviction

• You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • People

• I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Eyes
  • Cheating

• I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Art
  • Star
  • Celebrity

• Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Savage
  • Surprised
  • Behave

• No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Creature
  • Savage
  • Hide

• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Conflict
  • Manners
  • Politeness

• Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Women
  • Suffering
  • Fire

• Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • People
  • Fun

• How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Savage
  • Manners
  • Refined