quotes about Gogol

“Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.”

“Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.”

“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

“Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.”

“A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous.”

“I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.”

Source : "A Fashionable Life: Paloma Picasso" by Dana Thomas, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2010.

“A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.”

“In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.”

“I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.”

“I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.”