Ivan Chtcheglov Quotes

#1. Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Tom McDonough

#2. We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Tom McDonough

#3. There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Tom McDonough

#4. I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

LaVell Edwards

#5. You'll never see the hacienda. It doesn't exist. The hacienda must be built.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#6. New Rule: Coal companies have to stop calling coal "energy." That's like a lumber company calling wood "fire." Or Budweiser calling beer "urine." Okay, that one kind of makes sense.

Bill Maher

#7. I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Ethel Merman

#8. Missing rubs the soul raw.

Sarah Dunant

#9. Don't analyze, celebrate it.

Rajneesh

#10. inert and seemingly lifeless.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#11. Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#12. Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#13. Work indeed has many more benefits than money.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Last month she'd read that a man's connective tissue aligned horizontally with the skin, whereas a female's went perpendicular - which was why women got lumpy cellulite and men didn't. And doesn't that totally prove that God is male?

Cherise Sinclair

#15. He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

#16. All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#17. We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#18. We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#19. Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

Martin Amis

#20. Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Paul Johnson

#21. Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

William Cowper

#22. We are bored in the city.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#23. Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

Saadi

#24. But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal.

Autumn De Wilde

#25. Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

Ivan Chtcheglov