Avramakis Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do. — Darnell Lamont Walker

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think. — Michele Cassou

Some things never left you, no matter how much you wanted them to. — Megan Hart

He was increasingly aware these days of how much he owned, of the ongoing effort his life required. The thousands of trips to the grocery store he had made, all the heaping bags of food, first paper, then plastic, now canvas sacks brought from home, unloaded from the trunk of the car and unpacked and stored in cupboards, all to sustain a single body. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say. — Sri Chinmoy

We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily. — Taylor Nadeau

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home. — James Howell

The earth is the Lord's. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society. — Mae West

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin

He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him. — Charles Dickens

But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time ... of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here ... It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here. — Wendell Berry

My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face. — Lorrie Moore

I'm not consciously hiding anything.' After Ruth said that she wondered whether it was true. Then again, who revealed everything - the irritation, the fears? How tiresome that would be. — Amy Tan