Nikolai Gogol Quotes

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Nikolai Gogol

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• I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Working

• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Purposes
  • Convincing

• There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This is maybe too challenging,' but the heart willed it. The heart willed it to succeed.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Time
  • Proud

• From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • America
  • Pride

• U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

  

  John Bruton

• I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Amateurs

• No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Way
  • Break

• Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Calm

• A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

  

  Roger Jon Ellory
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Hands

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Composition

• Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Mother
  • Lovely
  • Motor

• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Ideas
  • Ocean
  • Found

• I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Air
  • Army
  • Periods

• I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Saws
  • Straight Path
  • Straighter