Diophantus Of Alexandria Quotes & Sayings

You make your own reality. — Seth

Life is hard, unfair, painful. But life is also guaranteed - one hundred percent, no doubt, no question - to offer unexpected and sudden moments of beauty, joy, love, acceptance, euphoria. The good stuff. It is our ability to recognize and then hold on to the moments of good stuff that allows us to survive, even thrive. And when we can share the beauty, hope is restored. — Nina Sankovitch

around at the rocky landscape. "Are we sure this is the island — Michael Ziegler

People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did. — Charlie Jane Anders

Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found. — Katie Reus

Sometime during the 1990s, when I was teaching philosophy at UCSD, my friend, colleague, and music teacher, Carol Plantamura, discussed the possibility of teaching a course together looking at ways in which various literary works (plays, stories, novels) had been treated as operas, and how different themes emerged in the opera and in its original. One of the pairings we planned to use was Mann's great novella and Britten's opera. Unfortunately, the course was never taught, but the idea remained with me. — Philip Kitcher

My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess. — Richard Prince

She looks like a woman who just got laid ... and had about three orgasms. — Stephen King

What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen — Gayle Forman

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire. — Bobby Flay

ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands. — Herman Melville

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. — Honore De Balzac