Create Athens Quotes & Sayings

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp

I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well. — Michael Bloomberg

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. — Jim Carrey

Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it. — Norman Fell

Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

The fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability. — Aristotle.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. — Frank A. Clark

Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners. — Sabine Baring-Gould

Will the veiled sister pray for
Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee,
Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between
Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait
In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray
For children at the gate
Who will not go away and cannot pray:
Pray for those who chose and oppose — T. S. Eliot

As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock. — Joseph Granville

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures. — Gerald Fischbach