Oleg Quotes & Sayings

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight. — Oleg Cassini

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess. — Oleg Romanishin

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered. — Oleg Cassini

A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it. — Oleg Cassini

At the end of his life, Stalin was at the pinnacle of his power. His authority was unassailable and not under threat from any source. But he did not feel that way. Like other dictators, he never stopped fighting for power and never quite trusted his subjects. The methods he used in his never-ending battle for power were universal and simple. They included the elimination of any potential threat from within his inner circle, unrelenting oversight of the secret police, the encouragement of competition and mutual control among the various components of government, and the mobilization of society against perceived enemies both internal and external. — Oleg V. Khlevniuk

I am a great believer in luck. — Oleg Cassini

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. — Oleg Cassini

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman. — Oleg Cassini

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything. — Oleg Deripaska

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city. — Oleg Deripaska

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit. — Oleg Cassini

Usher: Why do you play only on the black keys [of the piano]? I suppose you think black is good enough for the proletariat. You play on all the keys only for the bourgeoisie, is that it?
Oleg Bard: Please, citizen, please! I'm concentrating on the white ones!
Usher: So you think white is best? Play on both!
Oleg Bard: I am playing on both!
Usher: So you compromise with [the] Whites, opportunist! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting! — Oleg Romanishin

Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself ... I have very strong security. — Oleg Deripaska

Without any prior warning, the ground suddenly gave way. He had a falling sensation and he lost all sense of reality. There weren't four colleagues sitting in front of him in an office, it wasn't a murder case, it wasn't a warm summer's day in Oslo, no-one called Rakel and Oleg ever existed. He knew that this brief panic attack could be followed by others and he hung on by his fingertips. Harry lifted his mug of coffee and drank slowly while he collected himself. He determined that when he heard the sound of the mug being put down on the desk he would be back, here, in this reality. — Jo Nesbo

These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair. — Catherynne M Valente

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business. — Oleg Cassini

I'm the first American designer who went all over the world. — Oleg Cassini

Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make. — Oleg Cassini

I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have. — Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life. — Oleg Cassini

At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time. — Oleg Cassini

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment. — Oleg Cassini

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. — Oleg Cassini

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old. — Oleg Cassini

Why is there never a headline that says "Government program ends as its intended goal has been achieved"? — Oleg Atbashian

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini

And I didn't want you to expose me as a deserter, someone who disappears. But things happened as they did anyway. What I wanted to say was that even if I wasn't there for you, that doesn't mean you weren't important to me. We can't live the lives we would like to. We're prisoners of ... things. Of who we are." Oleg lifted his chin. "Of junk and shit." "That, too. — Jo Nesbo

The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang and shouted and laughed, hardening ourselves to what we'd done in life, and what we'd lost. And the moon graced two fallen fools, on a fallen day, with sunlight purified by a mirror in the sky, made of stone. — Gregory David Roberts

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg. — Gene Tierney

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind. — Oleg Cassini

An evil man threw tobacco in the macaque-rhesus eyes.' Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes. 'Why?' Thrown into its eyes, just like that! 'Why? It's senseless! Why?' - Kostoglotov — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia. — Oleg Deripaska

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you. — Oleg Cassini

There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy. — Oleg Kulik

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me. — Oleg Cassini

Indeed, the KGB's nearly total control of the Russian Orthodox Church, both at home and abroad, is one of the most sordid and little known chapters in the history of our organization. — Oleg Kalugin

Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress. — Jackie Kennedy

I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre ... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life. — Oleg Kulik

Life is such a tragicomedy. — Oleg Cassini

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower. — Oleg Cassini

Oleg had learned a lesson. This was his reward for not hurrying. The lesson was - never rush on without looking around first. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards. — Oleg Cassini

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world. — Oleg Cassini

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show. — Oleg Cassini

To be well dressed is a little like being in love — Oleg Cassini

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes. — Oleg Cassini

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy. — Oleg Cassini

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other. — Oleg Cassini

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region. — Oleg Deripaska

She has the ability to keep me sane--she has the power to ruin me.
Oleg--Deadly — Suzanne Steele

That money is not the key, the key is the global development — Oleg Martinuk

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. — Oleg Cassini

When you exclude anything that is improbable, whatever is left, is not as hilarious. — Oleg Medvedkov

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it. — Oleg Cassini

My goal in life was to pursue the good life. — Oleg Cassini