Golyadkin Quotes & Sayings

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice — Michael Grant

He bore the same sort of resemblance to his mother that our loving memory of a friend's face often bears to the face itself: the lines were all more generous, the smile brighter, the expression heartier. If — George Eliot

He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. — Iain Duncan Smith

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't. — Stacy London

Bow or not? Call back or not? Recognize him or not?" our hero wondered in indescribable anguish, "or pretend that I am not myself, but somebody else strikingly like me, and look as though nothing were the matter. Simply not I, not I - and that's all," said Mr. Golyadkin, taking off his hat to Andrey Filippovitch and keeping his eyes fixed upon him. "I'm ... I'm all right," he whispered with an effort; "I'm ... quite all right. It's not I, it's not I - and that is the fact of the matter. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee. — John Scalzi

Why did you lead me on for weeks only to tell me you didn't like me. Is that something you learned from Serena? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

He wanted to hide from himself, as though he were trying to run away from himself! Yes! It was really so.One may say more: Mr. Golyadkin did not want only to run away from himself, but to be obliterated, to cease to be, to return to dust — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Keeping your head above the water only works if the air is clean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. — E.L. Doctorow

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. — Alfred Lunt

While I knew him, he made me see--Poe did; made me understand that, unlike a bodily organ, the soul desires, even wills, its own continuance.It can be said to be the seat of will and desire and, even in its necrotic state, the root of evil. ... A Sunday school lesson or one of Cotton Mather's gaudy rants that helped to kindle the Salem bonfires is nearer to the truth of it than a fable by Poe, Hawthorne, or Melville. Evil's a malignancy beyond the skill and scalpel of {doctors} to heal or extirpate. — Norman Lock

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. — Sholem Aleichem

IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In the Solar System, Enceladus ought to be one of the highest priorities for the world's space agencies. Enceladus has a source of energy (tidal heating), organic material, and liquid water. That's a textbook-like list of those properties needed for life. Moreover, nature has provided astrobiologists with the ultimate free lunch: jets that spurt Enceladus's organic material into space. — David C. Catling

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. — Ronald Reagan