Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Mikhail Bulgakov

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• I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Mystery

• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Wall
  • New

• But don't worry... only yours is right.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Worry

• Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

  

  Levi Woodbury
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• Social entrepreneurs are people who have amazing passion to do good.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • Relationship

• A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Vision

• I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

  

  Travis Tritt
  • Career

• Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • God
  • Business
  • Church

• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Animal
  • Plant
  • Chief

• Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Yoga
  • Inspiring

• What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Balance
  • Half
  • Sublime

• Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

  

  Gabriel Cousens
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Silence

• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Change
  • Decisions

• We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Corn
  • Guns N Roses

• Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in 'The Outlaw'. And he never knew. He wasn't going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did.

  

  Jane Russell
  • Invented
  • Bra
  • Howard Hughes

• A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • People
  • Society
  • Principles

• You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Team

• If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Brilliant
  • Fairy

• For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Hands
  • Scientist
  • Practicals

• Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Chance
  • Events
  • Nostalgia

• You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Immortal
  • Dostoevsky
  • Citizeness