Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life.

Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.

If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.

Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.