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

• One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Power

• Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Savages
  • Scratches

• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Remember
  • Week
  • Lasts

• There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Inspired
  • Generations

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

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Saws
  • Straight Path
  • Straighter