Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • First
  • Inside
  • Weapons

• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Age
  • Play

• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Guy
  • Body
  • Kiss

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• My father was a lawyer.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Father
  • Lawyer

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Dress

• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • People
  • Violence
  • Hearts

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• In this industry, you're so used to heartbreak because nine out of 10 times, you don't get what you want. But, that one out of 10 times, you do and it's just the best feeling in the world.

  

  Josh Lawson
  • Want
  • Feeling
  • Get

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Life
  • Parts

• I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Want
  • Achieve
  • Contraries