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
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