Every person has daily rituals, but some celebrities' habits surprise even their most loyal fans. A selection of stars with personal oddities - in the material.
Jessica Simpson
Anti-nicotine chewing gum is a real salvation for many. Although the American singer and actress has never suffered from this addiction, the star chews chewing gum for smokers constantly.
bingapis.comIn pursuit of beauty, celebrities are ready to do a lot. Some of them have their own beauty rituals and habits that help them stay in shape. The “” star has developed her own method of combating aging. The actress regularly takes baths with red wine and claims that it helps.
Cameron Diaz
The list of strange habits of stars also includes the peculiarity of a Hollywood actress. For many years now she has been opening all doors exclusively with her elbows. This is Cameron Diaz's own technique that helps fight obsessive-compulsive disorder, which causes obsessive thoughts that cause severe anxiety. Only certain rituals help get rid of this anxiety.
wallsdesk.com It is difficult to determine what is more harmful or beneficial in the habit of the American singer. Every time he goes on a concert tour, the star takes with him a set of 20 toothbrushes. This is justified by the fact that the performer brushes her teeth at least six times a day. Although dentists say that such a ritual can damage the enamel, Perry's smile looks charming.
Brad Pitt
The main handsome man of Hollywood is not as perfect as he seems at first glance. As the actor admitted in an interview, he constantly picks his nose and ears. Those around him hint that such a habit is disgusting, and Pitt himself understands this, but he cannot help himself.
fanpop.com The sexy beauty, the dream of many men in the world, also has disgusting habits. The actress leaves dirty things everywhere and constantly forgets to flush the toilet. This leads to awkward situations when the star comes to visit friends and acquaintances.
sergievgrad.ru Journalists also know about the British football player. It is not known what this is connected with, but for an athlete it is critical that there is a pair of each product in the refrigerator: two cans of Pepsi, two cheese sauces, two apples, and so on. In addition, the football player arranges food in the refrigerator solely by size, and items in the wardrobe - by color. There is also a folding procedure for towels in hotel rooms.
Russian stars are also not without strange habits. So, the figure skater who
Almost all great people had their little oddities - nothing surprising, because all these are character traits, and every person has them, regardless of his fame. It’s a different matter if we are talking about a genius: then small eccentricities and habits turn into a “calling card”, and sometimes into jokes.
·Ivan the Terrible personally rang the bells at the main belfry of the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda in the mornings and evenings. Thus, they say, he tried to drown out mental suffering.
·Alexander Suvorov, the famous commander, was a real early bird: he got up long before dawn, at two or three in the morning. After this, he doused himself with cold water, had breakfast and, if it happened on the battlefield, drove through the positions, crowing like a rooster and waking up the soldiers. At seven in the morning the count already had dinner, and at six in the evening he went to bed.
·Napoleon Bonaparte - the French commander is known for his manic love of hot baths. In peacetime, he could take a bath several times a day. A special servant had to ensure that the water in it was always at the required temperature. Napoleon soaked for at least an hour, dictated letters, and received visitors. On military expeditions, he always took a camp bath with him. At the end of his life on the island of St. Helena, the deposed emperor spent almost the entire day in hot water. In addition to the hygienic benefits and pleasure Napoleon received from it, he considered baths to be an excellent remedy for hemorrhoids, which he had suffered from since his youth.
Another characteristic habit of Bonaparte is to have breakfast very quickly, inattentively and untidy, always completely alone (suppliers or a wife and child were allowed into the room, but Bonaparte did not invite any of them to the table). The emperor demanded that all dishes be brought at the same time, and ate from all plates at once, making no distinction between soup and dessert. Usually breakfast took no more than ten minutes. As for the famous cocked hat, Napoleon actually wore it constantly during his campaigns. However, the hats were often changed: in anger, the commander used to throw them to the ground and trample them under his feet. In addition, in the rain, the felt cocked hat got wet quite quickly, its brim hanging down over the face and back of the head. However, Napoleon did not lose his dignity at all.
·Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, turns out not to have worn socks. In July 2006, a collection of personal letters from the scientist was made public, in which he confesses this little oddity to his wife: “Even on the most solemn occasions, I went without socks and hid this lack of civilization under high boots.”
In addition, Einstein enjoyed playing the violin and riding a bicycle.
Einstein also did not speak until he was four years old. His teacher described him as mentally retarded.
· Lev Davidovich Landau, Nobel laureate in physics, constantly quoted some “funny jokes, poems, rhymed lines that cannot even be called poetry.”
“For example, as soon as I mentioned that I was going to Anapa, he replied: “I’ll put on a black hat, I’ll go to the city of Anapa, there I’ll lie on the sand, in my incomprehensible melancholy. In you, O depths of the sea, the luxurious man who lay on the sand in his incomprehensible melancholy will perish..."
In our garden, in the very back,
all the grass is crushed.
Don't think bad
“all damned love!”, wrote Maya Bessarab in her book “Thus Spoke Landau.” Ev Landau
In the summer at the dacha, the scientist loved to play solitaire, especially those where you had to calculate the options. Even the most difficult ones always worked out for him. “This is not for you to study physics. You have to think here!” - he said.
·When Marconi invented the radio and told his friends that he would transmit words at a distance through the air, they thought he was crazy and took him to a psychiatrist. But within a few months his radio saved the lives of many sailors.
·Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister's habit of smoking cigars and drinking whiskey in the morning is known to everyone. And the great politician was also an ardent fan of the siesta. He usually left the house only in the evening. In the morning, Churchill had breakfast and did business correspondence right in bed, then took a bath, had dinner, and then, after playing a game of cards with his wife or painting, he put on his pajamas and again retired to the bedroom for a couple of hours. During the war, the home routine had to change somewhat, but even in the parliament building the prime minister kept a personal bed, on which he regularly dozed off in the afternoon, despite any news from the fronts. Moreover, Churchill believed that it was thanks to daytime sleep that he managed to repel Hitler's air attack on Great Britain.
Churchill changed his bed linen every night. Moreover, in the hotels where he stayed, they often even placed two beds side by side. Waking up at night, Churchill lay down on another bed and slept on it until the morning. Biographers see the reasons for this in the fact that he had a powerful excretory system, in other words, he often sweated...
By the way, Winston Churchill also collected soldiers. It is known that he had several armies at home, which he enjoyed playing with.
·Charles Dickens always washed down every 50 lines of written text with a sip of hot water.
· Salvador Dali - the great painter tried to make his life more extravagant. He transformed the simple Spanish habit of taking a nap after lunch in a surreal way. Dali called it “an afternoon rest with a key” or a “second siesta.” The artist sat in a chair, holding a large copper key between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. An inverted metal bowl was placed next to the left leg. You should try to fall asleep in this position. As soon as the goal was achieved, the key fell from the unclenched hand, a ringing sound was heard, and Dali woke up. He assured that a moment's sleep is incredibly refreshing, inspiring and gives amazing visions.
Modern research has proven that at the moment of transition between doze, which is the first phase of sleep, and the deep second phase, a person’s creative potential is revealed, he is able to offer completely unexpected solutions to problems that seemed insoluble. If, of course, someone thinks of waking him up.
·When we look at Ford cars, we think that their creator, Henry Ford, was always a wealthy, successful businessman. We see this huge empire that has existed for more than a hundred years. But few of us know that before achieving financial success, Ford declared himself bankrupt several times and went completely bankrupt - the man who changed the course of history by putting the world on wheels.
· Ludwig Van Beethoven always went unshaven, believing that shaving hindered creative inspiration. And before sitting down to write music, the composer poured a bucket of cold water on his head: this, in his opinion, was supposed to greatly stimulate brain function. Beethoven's teacher considered him a completely mediocre student.
· Johannes Brahms “for inspiration” constantly cleaned his shoes unnecessarily.
·Isaac Newton once welded a pocket watch while holding an egg and looking at it.
In letters to friends, the great physicist complained of insomnia, which tormented him due to his habit of falling asleep in the evening in an armchair by the fireplace. Having woken up in this position in the middle of the night, it is completely useless to move to the bedroom: there will be no normal sleep.
· Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of the United States, was famous, firstly, for his early rises (at five in the morning he was already on his feet), and secondly, like Napoleon, for his love of hot baths. In the bath, Franklin preferred to work - to compose his scientific and journalistic articles, and even the US Declaration of Independence. Sir Benjamin also considered air baths very useful, that is, he simply sat naked and again pored over the texts. I loved, so to speak, that nothing hampered my thoughts.
And yet - Benjamin Franklin, when he sat down to work, stocked up on a huge amount of cheese.
·Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had the habit of swimming every day in the Ilm River, which flowed next to his house. Goethe also made sure to open a window at night, and sometimes even slept on the veranda, while his contemporaries and compatriots considered drafts to be the main enemy of health.
· Friedrich Schiller, a German poet and philosopher, could not write unless his desk drawer was filled with... rotten apples. Goethe, a friend of Schiller, said: “One day I came to visit Friedrich, but he was gone somewhere, and his wife asked me to wait in his study. I sat down in a chair, leaned my elbows on the table and suddenly felt a sharp attack of nausea. I even went to the open window to get some fresh air. At first I did not understand the reason for this strange condition, but then I realized that it was due to the pungent smell. Its source was soon discovered: in Schiller’s desk drawer lay a dozen spoiled apples! I called the servants to clean up the mess, but they told me that the apples were placed there on purpose, and that the owner couldn’t work otherwise. Friedrich returned and confirmed all this!
·Joseph Stalin was known for his passion for wearing the same simple clothes. If he got used to something, he wore it all the way. “He only had one pair of walking shoes. Even pre-war,” recalls the leader’s bodyguard A.S. Rybin. “Their skin is already all cracked.” The soles are worn out. The shoes looked terrible. Everyone was terribly embarrassed that Stalin was wearing them at work and at receptions, everywhere. All the guards decided to sew new shoes. At night, Matryona Butuzova put them next to the sofa and took the old ones away...” However, the replacement did not work out. Having woken up, the Secretary General caused a scandal and demanded that his old shoes be returned to him. He wore them almost until his death. And Stalin also had a habit of walking back and forth when he said something. At the same time, if he moved away from the listeners or turned his back to them, he did not bother to raise his voice at all. Subordinates had to observe deathly silence, listen closely and grasp everything on the fly. They say that after long meetings, people came out almost shaking from the stress they had endured and the fear of missing out on something important. The source of this habit is actually simple: due to polyarthritis, the leader was tormented by pain in his legs, which intensified if he sat in one place for a long time.
·Nikolai Gogol was an excellent cook of pasta. While living in Rome, Gogol specially went to the kitchen to learn from the chefs, and then treated his friends.
· Alexander Pushkin, in addition to his famous habit of drawing all sorts of scribbles in the margins of manuscripts, Alexander Sergeevich was very fond of drinking lemonade while working. “It used to be like writing at night, and now you give him lemonade at night,” said the poet’s valet Nikifor Fedorov. Pushkin, a desperate duelist and an incredibly superstitious person who believed in the prediction that he was destined to die at the hands of a blond man, constantly walked with a heavy iron stick, more like a club. “So that the hand is firmer: if you have to shoot, so that it doesn’t waver,” the poet explained to his friends.
Alexander Sergeevich loved to shoot in the bathhouse. They say that in the village of Mikhailovskoye, almost nothing authentic from the time of the poet could really be preserved, but the wall that Pushkin shot at surprisingly remained intact.
·Lev Tolstoy. Many contemporaries believed that Lev Nikolaevich had completely gone crazy because of his religious ideas, which is why he wore rags and mixed with all sorts of rabble. However, the Yasnaya Polyana count explained his passion for plowing and mowing by his usual habit of movement. If Tolstoy never left the house at least for a walk during the day, then in the evening he became irritable, and at night he could not fall asleep for a long time. He did not ride a horse - all that remained was exercises with a scythe and a plow. In this sense, autumn and winter with their forced seclusion were especially difficult for the count. However, Lev Nikolaevich came up with an occupation for himself - chopping wood. In winter, in his Moscow house, the writer did not allow anyone to do this work. Every morning he went out into the yard and chopped a pile of firewood, and then brought water from the well on a sleigh.
Lord Byron became extremely irritated at the sight of a salt shaker.
· Honoré de Balzac, author of The Human Comedy, was used to writing almost exclusively at night and was an avid coffee drinker. “Coffee penetrates your stomach, and your body immediately comes to life, your thoughts begin to move,” he wrote. “Images emerge, the paper becomes covered with ink...” In addition to ink, Balzac’s manuscripts were covered with marks from coffee cups: he drank them one after another, preparing them on a special alcohol lamp that stood next to his desk. It is estimated that he drank about 50 thousand cups of coffee during his life. Thanks to coffee, the writer was able to work for 48 hours in a row, but doctors believe that this habit was largely the cause of his death: his heart could not stand it.
In addition, as a sign of deep respect for the brilliant man, he always took off his hat. What's strange here, you ask? Balzac did this when he spoke... about himself!
·Physicist Walter Nernst, author of the third law of thermodynamics, bred carp. When they asked him why carp, and not any other fish or animals, he answered that he would not breed warm-blooded animals, because he did not want to heat the world space with his own money.
· Darwin, who had given up medicine, was bitterly reproached by his father: “You are not interested in anything except catching dogs and rats!”
· Mozart, one of the most brilliant composers, was told by Emperor Ferdinand that his “Marriage of Figaro” had “too little noise and too many notes.”
·Our compatriot Mendeleev had a C in chemistry.
·Walt Disney was fired from the newspaper for lack of ideas.
· Edison's mentor said about him that he was stupid and could not learn anything.
·The father of Rodin, the great sculptor, said: “My son is an idiot. He failed to get into art school three times.”
Remember this when you feel like you can't do anything!
“It’s not the Gods who burn the pots.” I am sure you are capable of many positive actions. All the best!!!Almost all great people had their little oddities - nothing surprising, because all these are character traits, and every person has them, regardless of his fame. It’s a different matter if we are talking about a genius: then small eccentricities and habits turn into a “calling card”, and sometimes into jokes.
Perhaps the main source of inspiration for everyone was, is and will remain for a long time "Divine Dali". Even his appearance can be called eccentric: long, smoothly combed hair, a waxed mustache, an ermine robe and a cane with a silver handle. Meanwhile, by his own admission, he woke up with the thought of “what would be so wonderful to do today?” And he did it very successfully. Mikhail Weller's story "Sabre Dance" from the book "Legends of Nevsky Prospect" describes Dali's meeting with the composer Aram Khachaturian. It is unlikely that anyone other than the great artist could “conduct” the meeting in this way:
"... the clock strikes four times, and with the last strike, a deafening bell sounds from the hidden speakers: “Sabre Dance!” The door swings open with thunder - and a completely naked Dali flies in riding on a mop, waving a saber over his head! He prances naked on a mop across the hall, waving his saber, to the opposite doors - they let him in and slam shut!
During his first trip to America, Salvador Dali showed the reporters who met him a painting of Gala, naked, with lamb chops on her shoulders. When asked what the chops had to do with it, he replied: "It's very simple. I love Gala and I love lamb chops. They come together here. Great harmony!"
At a lecture in New York, he once appeared in a sea green suit and a diving helmet, explaining that it would be much more convenient to descend into the depths of the subconscious. And this was said absolutely calmly.
However, most likely, he was hardly serious in his actions and statements - to a greater extent it was shocking, playing for the public. How else can one explain his statement: “Sometimes I spit on the portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure.”
But history also knows “serious eccentrics.” Great commander Alexander Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: an unusual daily routine - he went to bed at six in the evening and woke up at two in the morning, an unusual awakening - he doused himself with cold water and loudly shouted “ku-ka-re-ku!”, an unusual bed for a commander - at all ranks, he slept on the hay. Preferring to wear old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear.
He also gave the signal for the attack to his loved ones “ku-ka-re-ku!”, and, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began jumping over chairs and saying: “I jumped over this one, and over this one.” That!"
Suvorov was very fond of marrying his serfs, guided by a very peculiar principle - he lined them up in a row, selected those suitable in height, and then married twenty couples at a time.
Some of the seemingly great eccentricities are quite understandable. For example, Emperor Nero took baths in a tub with fish. This is due to the fact that the fish were not simple - they emitted electrical discharges, and the emperor was treated in this way for rheumatism.
Winston Churchill, for example, changed bed linen every night. Moreover, in the hotels where he stayed, they often even placed two beds side by side. Waking up at night, Churchill lay down on another bed and slept on it until the morning. Biographers see the reasons for this in the fact that he had a powerful excretory system, in other words, he often sweated...
By the way, Winston Churchill also collected soldiers. It is known that he had several armies at home, which he enjoyed playing with.
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, it turns out, didn't wear socks. In July 2006, a collection of personal letters from the scientist was made public, in which he confesses this little oddity to his wife: “Even on the most solemn occasions, I went without socks and hid this lack of civilization under high boots.” In addition, Einstein enjoyed playing the violin and riding a bicycle.
Lev Davidovich Landau, a Nobel laureate in physics, constantly quoted some “little jokes, poems, rhymed lines that couldn’t even be called poetry.”
“For example, as soon as I mentioned that I was going to Anapa, he replied: “I’ll put on a black hat, I’ll go to the city of Anapa, there I’ll lie on the sand, in my incomprehensible melancholy. In you, O depths of the sea, the luxurious man who lay on the sand in his incomprehensible melancholy will perish..."
In our garden, in the very back,
all the grass is crushed.
Don't think bad
all damned love!” wrote Maya Bessarab in her book “Thus Spoke Landau.”
One of the physicist’s favorite hobbies was solitaire. Laying out the cards, Dau said: “This is not for you to study physics. You need to think here.”
Other strange habits of great people:
- Ivan groznyj in the mornings and evenings he personally rang the bells at the main belfry of Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Thus, they say, he tried to drown out mental suffering.
- Lord Byron became extremely irritated at the sight of a salt shaker.
- Charles Dickens Every 50 lines of writing I was sure to wash down with a sip of hot water.
- Johannes Brahms“for inspiration” I constantly cleaned my shoes unnecessarily.
- Isaac Newton I once welded a pocket watch while holding an egg and looking at it.
- Ludwig van Beethoven I went around constantly unshaven, believing that shaving interfered with creative inspiration. And before sitting down to write music, the composer poured a bucket of cold water on his head: this, in his opinion, was supposed to greatly stimulate brain function.
- Benjamin Franklin When he sat down to work, he stocked up on a huge amount of cheese.
- Johann Goethe worked only in a hermetically sealed room, without the slightest access to fresh air.
- Nikolay Gogol cooked pasta perfectly. While living in Rome, Gogol specially went to the kitchen to learn from the chefs, and then treated his friends.
- Honore de Balzac I didn’t sit down to work without drinking 5-7 cups of coffee. It is estimated that he drank about 50 thousand cups of coffee during his life. In addition, as a sign of deep respect for the brilliant man, he always took off his hat. What's strange here, you ask? Balzac did this when he spoke... about himself!
Physicist Walter Nernst, author of the third law of thermodynamics, bred carp. When they asked him why carp, and not any other fish or animals, he answered that he would not breed warm-blooded animals, because he did not want to heat the world space for his own money.
- Jack the Ripper, The most famous murderer of the 19th century, he committed his crimes only on weekends.
- Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin I really liked to shoot in the bathhouse. They say that in the village of Mikhailovskoye, almost nothing authentic from the time of the poet could really be preserved, but the wall that Pushkin shot at surprisingly remained intact.
No matter what bad or strange habits you have, we are always on your side. So look at the list of quirks and weaknesses to which the greatest people in history were subject.
Now, when asked not to hunch over and take your socks out of the refrigerator, you can safely say: “What am I doing! Take Einstein, for example...”
Joseph Stalin
Stalin was known for his predilection for simple clothes, and the same ones. If he got used to something, he wore it all the way. “He only had one pair of walking shoes. Even before the war, recalls the leader’s bodyguard A.S. Rybin...
The skin is already all cracked. The soles are worn out. In general, we were breathing our last breath. Everyone was terribly embarrassed that Stalin was wearing them at work and receptions, in the theater and other crowded places. All the guards decided to sew new shoes. At night, Matryona Butuzova put them next to the sofa and took the old ones away...” However, the replacement did not work out. Waking up, General Secretary Plyushkin caused a scandal and demanded that his old shoes be returned to him. He wore them almost until his death.
And Stalin also had a habit of walking back and forth when he said something. At the same time, if he moved away from the listeners or turned his back to them, he did not bother to raise his voice at all. Subordinates had to observe deathly silence, listen closely and grasp everything on the fly. They say that after long meetings, people came out almost shaking from the stress they had endured and the fear of missing out on something important. The source of this habit is actually simple: due to polyarthritis, the leader was tormented by pain in his legs, which intensified if he sat in one place for a long time.
Salvador Dali
The great painter and brawler carefully tried to make his life as extravagant as possible. He even transformed the simple Spanish habit of taking a nap after lunch in a surreal way. Dali called it “an afternoon rest with a key” or a “second siesta.” The artist sat in a chair, holding a large copper key between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. An inverted metal bowl was placed next to the left leg. You should try to fall asleep in this position. As soon as the goal was achieved, the key fell from the unclenched hand, a ringing sound was heard, and Dali woke up. He assured that a moment's sleep is incredibly refreshing, inspiring and gives amazing visions. By the way, it is possible that there is even some scientific basis for this. Modern research has proven that at the moment of transition between doze, which is the first phase of sleep, and the deep second phase, a person’s creative potential is revealed, he is able to offer completely unexpected solutions to problems that seemed insoluble. If, of course, someone thinks of waking him up.
Isaac Newton
In letters to friends, the great physicist complained of insomnia, which tormented him due to his stupid habit of falling asleep in the evening in an armchair by the fireplace. Having woken up in this position in the middle of the night, it is completely useless to move to the bedroom: there will be no normal sleep.
Friedrich Schiller
In terms of perversions, perhaps the German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller managed to outdo everyone, who could not write unless his desk drawer was filled with... rotten apples.
Goethe, a friend of Schiller, said: “One day I came to visit Friedrich, but he was gone somewhere, and his wife asked me to wait in his study. I sat down in a chair, leaned my elbows on the table and suddenly felt a sharp attack of nausea. I even went to the open window to get some fresh air. At first I did not understand the reason for this strange condition, but then I realized that it was due to the pungent smell. Its source was soon discovered: in Schiller’s desk drawer lay a dozen spoiled apples! I called the servants to clean up the mess, but they told me that the apples were placed there on purpose, and that the owner couldn’t work otherwise. Friedrich returned and confirmed all this!
Alexander Suvorov
The famous commander was a real early bird: he got up long before dawn, at two or three in the morning. After this, he doused himself with cold water, had breakfast and, if it happened on the battlefield, drove through the positions, crowing like a rooster and waking up the soldiers. At seven in the morning the count already had dinner, and at six in the evening he went to bed.
Richard Wagner
Biographers claim that the great German composer had a habit of composing music in special surroundings. He surrounded himself with silk pillows and sachets with flower petals, and poured a bottle of cologne into a bathtub in the corner of his office. However, this entire boudoir quite accurately conveys the courtly atmosphere of Wagner’s music. Some researchers also reveal to us such intimate details from the life of a genius, such as a passion for silk underwear. We might have been embarrassed to write about this in our honest men's magazine if Wagner himself had not explained this weakness by regular erysipelas of the skin, which did not allow him to wear ordinary underwear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The French commander is known for his obsessive love of hot baths. In peacetime, he could take a bath several times a day. A special servant had to ensure that the water in it was always at the required temperature. Napoleon soaked for at least an hour, dictated letters, and received visitors. On military expeditions, he always took a camp bath with him. At the end of his life on the island of St. Helena, the deposed emperor spent almost the entire day in hot water. In addition to the hygienic benefits and pleasure Napoleon received from it, he considered baths to be an excellent remedy for hemorrhoids, which he had suffered from since his youth.
Another characteristic habit of Bonaparte is to have breakfast very quickly, inattentively and untidy, always completely alone (suppliers or a wife and child were allowed into the room, but Bonaparte did not invite any of them to the table). The emperor demanded that all dishes be brought at the same time, and ate from all plates at once, making no distinction between soup, roast and dessert. Usually breakfast took no more than ten minutes. As for the famous cocked hat, Napoleon actually wore it constantly during his campaigns. However, the hats were often changed: in anger, the commander used to throw them to the ground and trample them under his feet. In addition, in the rain, the felt cocked hat got wet quite quickly, its brim hanging down over the face and back of the head. However, Napoleon did not lose his dignity at all.
Truman Capote
Capote called himself a "horizontal writer." To be productive, he needed three things: a sofa, coffee and a cigarette. However, in the afternoon, coffee could be replaced with a glass of brandy or whiskey. Strictly in a prone position, Capote wrote with a simple pencil on paper: he did not recognize typewriters.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had the habit of swimming every day in the Ilm River, which flowed next to his house. Goethe also made sure to open a window at night, and sometimes even slept on the veranda, while his contemporaries and compatriots considered drafts to be the main enemy of health.
Henrik Ibsen
The Norwegian playwright also had a rather strange relationship with his muse. While working, Ibsen periodically looked at the portrait of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whom he hated fiercely. The Swede responded to the Norwegian in kind: he could not stand him and accused him of blatant plagiarism. Ibsen, in turn, called Strindberg a psychopath, for which, by the way, he had some grounds. Augustus suffered from persecution mania: sometimes he would turn around sharply, snatching a knife from his pocket, and threaten invisible enemies. When friends asked Ibsen what Strindberg was doing on his wall, the Norwegian replied: “You know, I can’t write a single line without those crazy eyes looking at me!”
Albert Einstein
The great scientist never wore socks. He said that he didn’t see the need for socks, and besides, holes instantly formed on them. For official events, Einstein wore high boots so that the absence of this detail of the toilet would not be noticeable.
Benjamin Franklin
The founding father of the United States was famous, firstly, for his early rises (he was already on his feet at five in the morning), and secondly, like Napoleon, for his love of hot baths. In the bath, Franklin preferred to work - to compose his scientific and journalistic articles, and sometimes the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Sir Benjamin also considered air baths very useful, that is, he simply sat naked and again pored over the texts. I loved, so to speak, that nothing hampered my thoughts.
Alexander Pushkin
In addition to his famous habit of drawing all sorts of scribbles in the margins of manuscripts, Alexander Sergeevich was extremely fond of drinking lemonade while working. “It used to be like writing at night - now you give him lemonade at night,” said the poet’s valet Nikifor Fedorov. Even Pushkin, a desperate duelist and an incredibly superstitious person who believed in the prediction that he was destined to die at the hands of a blond man, constantly walked with a heavy iron stick, more like a club. “So that the hand is firmer: if you have to shoot, so that it does not tremble,” the poet explained to his friends.
Lev Tolstoy
Many contemporaries believed that Lev Nikolaevich had completely gone crazy because of his religious ideas, which is why he wore rags and mixed with all sorts of rabble. However, the Yasnaya Polyana count explained his passion for plowing and mowing by his usual habit of movement. If Tolstoy never left the house at least for a walk during the day, then in the evening he became irritable, and at night he could not fall asleep for a long time. He did not ride a horse, there were no gyms in Yasnaya Polyana for the next hundred years - only exercises with a scythe and a plow remained.
In this sense, autumn and winter with their forced seclusion were especially difficult for the count. However, Lev Nikolaevich came up with an occupation for himself - chopping wood. In winter, in his Moscow house on Dolgokhamovnichesky Lane, the writer did not allow anyone to do this work. Every morning he went out into the yard and chopped a pile of firewood, and then brought water from the well on a sleigh.
Victor Hugo
Perhaps no one can boast of such extravagant habits as writers who pursue the muse in the most intricate ways. For example, the French classic Victor Hugo often wrote his imperishable works naked*. This was a kind of self-blackmail: Victor ordered the servant to take all his clothes in order to eliminate any temptation to leave the house and be distracted from work. Voluntary imprisonment ceased only after writing a certain number of pages. We, people seasoned in this sense, can only be amazed at the poverty of the imagination of the French classics. After all, even if you turn off the Internet in the house, you can always find so many wonderful temptations that distract you from work! What is it worth just studying in the mirror the cleanliness of your teeth, the depth of wrinkles and the brutality of your profile... And looking out the window and hatching a project to rearrange the sofa?! One can only wonder how this article was written.
A bunch of wonderful people. Idiot habits of 25 famous historical figures
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“By the way, if you think that Hugo was alone in his habit, you are deeply mistaken. Benjamin Franklin and Ernest Hemingway were distinguished by the same weakness.”
Mao Zedong
Following a simple peasant habit, the great helmsman did not accept brushing his teeth in any way. He firmly believed in the traditional Chinese way of caring for the oral cavity: you should rinse it with green tea and eat the tea leaves. This is exactly what Mao did every morning. True, such hygiene affected the condition of the teeth in the most deplorable way: by the middle of his life they were covered with a copper-green coating, periodontal disease developed... But, since Hollywood wide smiles did not correspond to the canons of communist ideology, Mao, like Mona Lisa, smiled in ceremonial photographs from the corners of his mouth and was not particularly worried about the color and presence of his teeth.
Emperor Alexander III
Let's start with the fact that the Russian autocrat drank heavily and regularly. It’s also a habit for me, you’ll say, and you’ll be right, of course. In the conditions of Russian, and even more so pre-revolutionary reality, this is rather a national feature. However, Alexander III did do something interesting. In fact, he knew how to drink and, even when very drunk, he could not show it at all for a long time. Nevertheless, sooner or later a moment came when the sovereign unexpectedly fell on his back, began to kick his legs in the air and grab everyone who passed by, especially preferring women. His wife really did not like this habit and made sure that her husband refrained from abuse. However, the autocrat, together with his friend, the head of the royal guard P. A. Cherevin, still managed to outwit her.
“The Empress, like some kind of overseer, will walk past his card table ten times, see that there is no drink near her husband, and, happy, calmly leaves,” Cherevin said. - Meanwhile, by the end of the evening, look, His Majesty will again deign to flounder on his back and dangle his paws, squealing with pleasure... The Queen only raises her eyebrows in amazement, because she does not understand where and when it came from. She was watching all the time... And His Majesty and I managed: we ordered boots with such special tops that they could fit a flat flask of cognac with a capacity of a bottle... The queen is next to us - we sit quietly, play like good little girls. She moved away - we looked at each other - one, two, three! - they pulled out the flasks, sucked, and again as if nothing had happened... He really liked this fun... Like a game... And we called it “the need for cunning inventions”...
- One two Three!..
- Tricky, Cherevin?
- Cunning, Your Majesty!
One, two, three - and suck it.”
Honore de Balzac
The author of The Human Comedy was used to writing almost exclusively at night and was an avid coffee drinker. “Coffee penetrates your stomach, and your body immediately comes to life, your thoughts begin to move,” he wrote. “Images appear, the paper becomes covered with ink...” In addition to ink, Balzac’s manuscripts were covered with marks from coffee cups: he drank them one after another, preparing them on a special alcohol lamp that stood next to his desk.
Thanks to coffee, the writer was able to work for 48 hours in a row, but doctors believe that this habit was largely the cause of his death: his heart could not stand it.
Thomas Edison
The great inventor constantly boasted to his friends that he could get by with only three to four hours of sleep a day. On the one hand, it was true: Edison went to bed for no more than four hours. However, he had a habit of dozing off several times during the day in the most inappropriate places. Thomas could fall asleep in a chair, on a bench in his laboratory, in a closet, and even almost leaning on the laboratory table with reagents. As a rule, this dream lasted about half an hour and was so strong that there was no way to wake up the inventor at that moment.
Alexandre Dumas the father
The French writer had a rather strange habit: every day at seven o’clock in the morning he ate an apple under the Arc de Triomphe. The initiator of this seemingly meaningless ritual was Dumas’s personal physician. The fact is that his patient suffered from insomnia due to his extremely hectic and disorganized life. The need to get up at six in the morning to walk to the arch and eat the damned apple should have prompted the writer to go to bed early and organize his regime.
Winston Churchill
The British Prime Minister's habit of smoking cigars and drinking whiskey first thing in the morning is, of course, known to you without us. The great politician was also an ardent fan of the siesta. He usually left the house only in the evening. In the morning, Churchill had breakfast and did business correspondence right in bed, then took a bath, had dinner, and then, after playing a game of cards with his wife or painting, he put on his pajamas and again retired to the bedroom for a couple of hours.
During the war, the home routine had to change somewhat, but even in the parliament building the prime minister kept a personal bed, on which he regularly dozed off in the afternoon, despite any news from the fronts. Moreover, Churchill believed that it was thanks to daytime sleep that he managed to repel Hitler's air attack on Great Britain.
Orhan Pamuk
The famous Turkish writer once admitted that he was absolutely unable to work where he lived. The habit of “going to work” was so ingrained in him that while studying in the USA, when Pamuk lived in a modest apartment and could not afford to rent another office space, he had to resort to a trick. In the morning, before starting to write, Orkhan had breakfast, said goodbye to his wife, left the house, circled around the neighborhood for a while, then returned home and sat down at his desk with concentration, without talking to anyone.
William Faulkner
No one will be surprised by writers who write while intoxicated. But Faulkner had a more original creative style: he worked exclusively with a hangover. The writer Sherwood Anderson taught him this art when they met in New Orleans. It was at the height of Prohibition, and Faulkner worked part-time as a bootlegger, selling alcohol illegally. They met Anderson in the afternoon, had a drink, then another and another. William listened almost all the time, and Sherwood shone with eloquence. One day Faulkner came to pick up a friend not at the usual time, but right in the morning and found him in a strange, almost ecstatic state: he was quickly writing something down. “If this is how writers live, then this is the life for me!” - thought the future classic of American literature and borrowed the secrets of mastery from Anderson.
Barack Obama
The African -American bodyguard of the first black President Regina Love (have you noticed how we are political correctly avoiding the word "Negro"?) Recently left his post and gave several interviews about Obama's personal habits. In particular, we learned that Barack hates car air conditioners and even in the most desperate heat does not allow them to be turned on in the presidential car. “It was killing me,” Reggie complained. - I am very hot. I sweat. I tell him: it’s thirty degrees here in this gas chamber, I’m about to lose consciousness!”
Lev Landau
In the summer at the dacha, the scientist loved to play solitaire, especially those where you had to calculate the options. Even the most difficult ones always worked out for him. “This is not physics, you have to think!” - he said.
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Stalin was known for his predilection for simple clothes, and the same ones. If he got used to something, he wore it all the way. “He only had one pair of walking shoes. Even pre-war,” recalls the leader’s bodyguard A.S. Rybin. - The skin is already all cracked. The soles are worn out. In general, we were breathing our last breath. Everyone was terribly embarrassed that Stalin was wearing them at work and receptions, in the theater and other crowded places. All the guards decided to sew new shoes. At night, Matryona Butuzova put them next to the sofa and took the old ones away...” However, the replacement did not work out. Waking up, General Secretary Plyushkin caused a scandal and demanded that his old shoes be returned to him. He wore them almost until his death.
And Stalin also had a habit of walking back and forth when he said something. At the same time, if he moved away from the listeners or turned his back to them, he did not bother to raise his voice at all. Subordinates had to observe deathly silence, listen closely and grasp everything on the fly. They say that after long meetings, people came out almost shaking from the stress they had endured and the fear of missing out on something important. The source of this habit is actually simple: due to polyarthritis, the leader was tormented by pain in his legs, which intensified if he sat in one place for a long time.
2 Salvador Dali
The great painter and brawler carefully tried to make his life as extravagant as possible. He even transformed the simple Spanish habit of taking a nap after lunch in a surreal way. Dali called it “an afternoon rest with a key” or a “second siesta.” The artist sat in a chair, holding a large copper key between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. An inverted metal bowl was placed next to the left leg. You should try to fall asleep in this position. As soon as the goal was achieved, the key fell from the unclenched hand, a ringing sound was heard, and Dali woke up. He assured that a moment's sleep is incredibly refreshing, inspiring and gives amazing visions. By the way, it is possible that there is even some scientific basis for this. Modern research has proven that at the moment of transition between doze, which is the first phase of sleep, and the deep second phase, a person’s creative potential is revealed, he is able to offer completely unexpected solutions to problems that seemed insoluble. If, of course, someone thinks of waking him up.
3 Isaac Newton
In letters to friends, the great physicist complained of insomnia, which tormented him due to his stupid habit of falling asleep in the evening in an armchair by the fireplace. Having woken up in this position in the middle of the night, it is completely useless to move to the bedroom: there will be no normal sleep.
In terms of perversions, perhaps the German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller managed to outdo everyone, who could not write unless his desk drawer was filled with... rotten apples.
Goethe, a friend of Schiller, said: “One day I came to visit Friedrich, but he was gone somewhere, and his wife asked me to wait in his study. I sat down in a chair, leaned my elbows on the table and suddenly felt a sharp attack of nausea. I even went to the open window to get some fresh air. At first I did not understand the reason for this strange condition, but then I realized that it was due to the pungent smell. Its source was soon discovered: in Schiller’s desk drawer lay a dozen spoiled apples! I called the servants to clean up the mess, but they told me that the apples were placed there on purpose, and that the owner couldn’t work otherwise. Friedrich returned and confirmed all this!
5 Alexander Suvorov
The famous commander was a real early bird: he got up long before dawn, at two or three in the morning. After this, he doused himself with cold water, had breakfast and, if it happened on the battlefield, drove through the positions, crowing like a rooster and waking up the soldiers. At seven in the morning the count already had dinner, and at six in the evening he went to bed.
6 Richard Wagner
Biographers claim that the great German composer had a habit of composing music in special surroundings. He surrounded himself with silk pillows and sachets with flower petals, and poured a bottle of cologne into a bathtub in the corner of his office. However, this entire boudoir quite accurately conveys the courtly atmosphere of Wagner’s music. Some researchers also reveal to us such intimate details from the life of a genius, such as a passion for silk underwear. We might have been embarrassed to write about this in our honest men's magazine if Wagner himself had not explained this weakness by regular erysipelas of the skin, which did not allow him to wear ordinary underwear.
The French commander is known for his obsessive love of hot baths. In peacetime, he could take a bath several times a day. A special servant had to ensure that the water in it was always at the required temperature. Napoleon soaked for at least an hour, dictated letters, and received visitors. On military expeditions, he always took a camp bath with him. At the end of his life on the island of St. Helena, the deposed emperor spent almost the entire day in hot water. In addition to the hygienic benefits and pleasure Napoleon received from it, he considered baths to be an excellent remedy for hemorrhoids, which he had suffered from since his youth.
Another characteristic habit of Bonaparte is to have breakfast very quickly, inattentively and untidy, always completely alone (suppliers or a wife and child were allowed into the room, but Bonaparte did not invite any of them to the table). The emperor demanded that all dishes be brought at the same time, and ate from all plates at once, making no distinction between soup, roast and dessert. Usually breakfast took no more than ten minutes. As for the famous cocked hat, Napoleon actually wore it constantly during his campaigns. However, the hats were often changed: in anger, the commander used to throw them to the ground and trample them under his feet. In addition, in the rain, the felt cocked hat got wet quite quickly, its brim hanging down over the face and back of the head. However, Napoleon did not lose his dignity at all.
8 Truman Capote
Capote called himself a "horizontal writer." To be productive, he needed three things: a sofa, coffee and a cigarette. However, in the afternoon, coffee could be replaced with a glass of brandy or whiskey. Strictly in a prone position, Capote wrote with a simple pencil on paper: he did not recognize typewriters.
9 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had the habit of swimming every day in the Ilm River, which flowed next to his house. Goethe also made sure to open a window at night, and sometimes even slept on the veranda, while his contemporaries and compatriots considered drafts to be the main enemy of health.
10 Henrik Ibsen
The Norwegian playwright also had a rather strange relationship with his muse. While working, Ibsen periodically looked at the portrait of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whom he hated fiercely. The Swede responded to the Norwegian in kind: he could not stand him and accused him of blatant plagiarism. Ibsen, in turn, called Strindberg a psychopath, for which, by the way, he had some grounds. Augustus suffered from persecution mania: sometimes he would turn around sharply, snatching a knife from his pocket, and threaten invisible enemies. When friends asked Ibsen what Strindberg was doing on his wall, the Norwegian replied: “You know, I can’t write a single line without those crazy eyes looking at me!”
The great scientist never wore socks. He said that he didn’t see the need for socks, and besides, holes instantly formed on them. For official events, Einstein wore high boots so that the absence of this detail of the toilet would not be noticeable.
12 Benjamin Franklin
The founding father of the United States was famous, firstly, for his early rises (he was already on his feet at five in the morning), and secondly, like Napoleon, for his love of hot baths. In the bath, Franklin preferred to work - to compose his scientific and journalistic articles, and sometimes the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Sir Benjamin also considered air baths very useful, that is, he simply sat naked and again pored over the texts. I loved, so to speak, that nothing hampered my thoughts.
13 Alexander Pushkin
In addition to his famous habit of drawing all sorts of scribbles in the margins of manuscripts, Alexander Sergeevich was extremely fond of drinking lemonade while working. “It used to be like writing at night - now you give him lemonade at night,” said the poet’s valet Nikifor Fedorov. Even Pushkin, a desperate duelist and an incredibly superstitious person who believed in the prediction that he was destined to die at the hands of a blond man, constantly walked with a heavy iron stick, more like a club. “So that the hand is firmer: if you have to shoot, so that it does not tremble,” the poet explained to his friends.
Many contemporaries believed that Lev Nikolaevich had completely gone crazy because of his religious ideas, which is why he wore rags and mixed with all sorts of rabble. However, the Yasnaya Polyana count explained his passion for plowing and mowing by his usual habit of movement. If Tolstoy never left the house at least for a walk during the day, then in the evening he became irritable, and at night he could not fall asleep for a long time. He did not ride a horse, there were no gyms in Yasnaya Polyana for the next hundred years - only exercises with a scythe and a plow remained.
In this sense, autumn and winter with their forced seclusion were especially difficult for the count. However, Lev Nikolaevich came up with an occupation for himself - chopping wood. In winter, in his Moscow house on Dolgokhamovnichesky Lane, the writer did not allow anyone to do this work. Every morning he went out into the yard and chopped a pile of firewood, and then brought water from the well on a sleigh.
15 Victor Hugo
Perhaps no one can boast of such extravagant habits as writers who pursue the muse in the most intricate ways. For example, the French classic Victor Hugo often wrote his imperishable works naked*. This was a kind of self-blackmail: Victor ordered the servant to take all his clothes in order to eliminate any temptation to leave the house and be distracted from work. Voluntary imprisonment ceased only after writing a certain number of pages. We, people seasoned in this sense, can only be amazed at the poverty of the imagination of the French classics. After all, even if you turn off the Internet in the house, you can always find so many wonderful temptations that distract you from work! What is it worth just studying in the mirror the cleanliness of your teeth, the depth of wrinkles and the brutality of your profile... And looking out the window and hatching a project to rearrange the sofa?! One can only wonder how this article was written.
* - Note Phacochoerus "a Funtik:
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By the way, if you think that Hugo was alone in his habit, then you are deeply mistaken. Benjamin Franklin and Ernest Hemingway had this same weakness.»
16 Mao Zedong
Following a simple peasant habit, the great helmsman did not accept brushing his teeth in any way. He firmly believed in the traditional Chinese way of caring for the oral cavity: you should rinse it with green tea and eat the tea leaves. This is exactly what Mao did every morning. True, such hygiene affected the condition of the teeth in the most deplorable way: by the middle of his life they were covered with a copper-green coating, periodontal disease developed... But, since Hollywood wide smiles did not correspond to the canons of communist ideology, Mao, like Mona Lisa, smiled in ceremonial photographs from the corners of his mouth and was not particularly worried about the color and presence of his teeth.
17 Emperor Alexander III
Let's start with the fact that the Russian autocrat drank heavily and regularly. It’s also a habit for me, you’ll say, and you’ll be right, of course. In the conditions of Russian, and even more so pre-revolutionary reality, this is rather a national feature. However, Alexander III did do something interesting. In fact, he knew how to drink and, even when very drunk, he could not show it at all for a long time. Nevertheless, sooner or later a moment came when the sovereign unexpectedly fell on his back, began to kick his legs in the air and grab everyone who passed by, especially preferring women. His wife really did not like this habit and made sure that her husband refrained from abuse. However, the autocrat, together with his friend, the head of the royal guard P. A. Cherevin, still managed to outwit her. “The Empress, like some kind of overseer, will walk past his card table ten times, see that there is no drink near her husband, and, happy, calmly leaves,” Cherevin said. - Meanwhile, by the end of the evening, look, His Majesty will again deign to flounder on his back and dangle his paws, squealing with pleasure... The Queen only raises her eyebrows in amazement, because she does not understand where and when it came from. She was watching all the time... And His Majesty and I managed: we ordered boots with such special tops that they could fit a flat flask of cognac with a capacity of a bottle... The queen is next to us - we sit quietly, play like good little girls. She moved away - we looked at each other - one, two, three! - they pulled out the flasks, sucked, and again as if nothing had happened... He really liked this fun... Like a game... And we called it “the need for cunning inventions”...
- One two Three!..
- Tricky, Cherevin?
- Cunning, Your Majesty!
One, two, three - and suck it.”
The author of The Human Comedy was used to writing almost exclusively at night and was an avid coffee drinker. “Coffee penetrates your stomach, and your body immediately comes to life, your thoughts begin to move,” he wrote. “Images appear, the paper becomes covered with ink...” In addition to ink, Balzac’s manuscripts were covered with marks from coffee cups: he drank them one after another, preparing them on a special alcohol lamp that stood next to his desk.
Thanks to coffee, the writer was able to work for 48 hours in a row, but doctors believe that this habit was largely the cause of his death: his heart could not stand it.
19 Thomas Edison
The great inventor constantly boasted to his friends that he could get by with only three to four hours of sleep a day. On the one hand, it was true: Edison went to bed for no more than four hours. However, he had a habit of dozing off several times during the day in the most inappropriate places. Thomas could fall asleep in a chair, on a bench in his laboratory, in a closet, and even almost leaning on the laboratory table with reagents. As a rule, this dream lasted about half an hour and was so strong that there was no way to wake up the inventor at that moment.
20 Alexandre Dumas the father
The French writer had a rather strange habit: every day at seven o’clock in the morning he ate an apple under the Arc de Triomphe. The initiator of this seemingly meaningless ritual was Dumas’s personal physician. The fact is that his patient suffered from insomnia due to his extremely hectic and disorganized life. The need to get up at six in the morning to walk to the arch and eat the damned apple should have prompted the writer to go to bed early and organize his regime.
The British Prime Minister's habit of smoking cigars and drinking whiskey first thing in the morning is, of course, known to you without us. The great politician was also an ardent fan of the siesta. He usually left the house only in the evening. In the morning, Churchill had breakfast and did business correspondence right in bed, then took a bath, had dinner, and then, after playing a game of cards with his wife or painting, he put on his pajamas and again retired to the bedroom for a couple of hours.
During the war, the home routine had to change somewhat, but even in the parliament building the prime minister kept a personal bed, on which he regularly dozed off in the afternoon, despite any news from the fronts. Moreover, Churchill believed that it was thanks to daytime sleep that he managed to repel Hitler's air attack on Great Britain.
22 Orhan Pamuk
The famous Turkish writer once admitted that he was absolutely unable to work where he lived. The habit of “going to work” was so ingrained in him that while studying in the USA, when Pamuk lived in a modest apartment and could not afford to rent another office space, he had to resort to a trick. In the morning, before starting to write, Orkhan had breakfast, said goodbye to his wife, left the house, circled around the neighborhood for a while, then returned home and sat down at his desk with concentration, without talking to anyone.
23 William Faulkner
No one will be surprised by writers who write while intoxicated. But Faulkner had a more original creative style: he worked exclusively with a hangover. The writer Sherwood Anderson taught him this art when they met in New Orleans. It was at the height of Prohibition, and Faulkner worked part-time as a bootlegger, selling alcohol illegally. They met Anderson in the afternoon, had a drink, then another and another. William listened almost all the time, and Sherwood shone with eloquence. One day Faulkner came to pick up a friend not at the usual time, but right in the morning and found him in a strange, almost ecstatic state: he was quickly writing something down. “If this is how writers live, then this is the life for me!” - thought the future classic of American literature and borrowed the secrets of mastery from Anderson.
The African -American bodyguard of the first black President Regina Love (have you noticed how we are political correctly avoiding the word "Negro"?) Recently left his post and gave several interviews about Obama's personal habits. In particular, we learned that Barack hates car air conditioners and even in the most desperate heat does not allow them to be turned on in the presidential car. “It was killing me,” Reggie complained. - I am very hot. I sweat. I tell him: it’s thirty degrees here in this gas chamber, I’m about to lose consciousness!”
25 Lev Landau
In the summer at the dacha, the scientist loved to play solitaire, especially those where you had to calculate the options. Even the most difficult ones always worked out for him. “This is not physics, you have to think!” - he said.