Agiotas Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got. — Stephen King

There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they dare not speak the truth directly because of a long-standing, humiliating timidity before them. Believe me, Krasotkin, such buffoonery is sometimes extremely tragic. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The happier time, the quicker it passes — Pliny The Younger

I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking. — Nancy Spero

Well, it seems like a mad idea to me, but those usually work out for you, said Catarina. — Cassandra Clare

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places. — Wallace Stegner

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed. — Kate Jackson

Now hold on, little girl, my father said. Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces. — Rion Amilcar Scott

Oh, my God, when Ivy got it wrong, she really got it wrong. I didn't need a boyfriend. I had all the drama I could stand right here. — Kim Harrison

She did not think it any coincidence that ideas denigrating literary authorship had taken center stage simultaneously with the emergence of formerly silent voices for whom the act of writing, and publishing, had the deepest and most delicious possible meaning, simultaneously with the emergence of an audience for whom the act of thinking and writing was an act of skeptical anger, sometimes a transitional act to violence. — Jane Smiley