Alexakis Dimitris Quotes & Sayings

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis

Most children seem eager, even desperate, to please those in authority, reluctant to rock the boat even when the boat clearly needs rocking. In a way, an occasional roll-your-eyes story of excess in the other direction marks the exception that proves the rule. And the rule is a silent epidemic of obedience. For every kid who is slapped with the label "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," hundreds suffer from what one educator has mischievously called Compliance Acquiescent Disorder. The symptoms of CAD, he explained, include the following: "defers to authority," "actively obeys rules," "fails to argue back," "knuckles under instead of mobilizing others in support," and "stays restrained when outrage is warranted. — Alfie Kohn

Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me. — Becky Albertalli

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you. — Debasish Mridha

And my bleak heart became a little more his. — Jenny B. Jones

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. — Eugene O'Neill

Ninety percent of the people in the world end up with the wrong person. And that's what makes the jukebox spin. — Laurie Anderson

She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness. — Ashley Judd

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman." — Patricia Schroeder