Alex Varkatzas Quotes & Sayings

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception. — Alison Jackson

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. — Tony Campolo

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are. — Bill De Blasio

His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. A very different Holmes, this active, alert man, from the introspective and pallid dreamer of Baker Street. I felt, as I looked upon that supple, figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words
"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"
words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way? — Jennifer Egan

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows; — Nathaniel Philbrick

Mace let out an exasperated sigh. "It's bad enough we have the baby. Which I was accepting of because he's mine."
"That's real big of ya, hoss. — Shelly Laurenston

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease. — Malachy McCourt

Well, Dill, after all he's just a Negro." "I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that - it just makes me sick." "That's — Harper Lee

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that. — Les Claypool

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It's packaged. We don't live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it. — Alan Joshua

My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory. — Kevin Brownlow

Pageboy haircut, and I hadn't even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore, — John Green

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni