Drakopoulos Panayiotis Quotes & Sayings

I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama. — Bo Jackson

You'll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me. — Richelle Mead

Multiply that scenario by one hundred or one thousand books a year. Using permission, Amazon can fundamentally reconfigure the entire book industry, disintermediating and combining every step of the chain until there are only two: the writer and Amazon. — Seth Godin

Well, I must do't. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turn'd, Which quier'd with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv'd an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness. — William Shakespeare

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' — Anna Deavere Smith

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not. — Brandon Sanderson

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope. — Albert Shanker

The headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse. — Roger Zelazny

When I was young and had no sense
In far-off Mandalay
I lost my heart to a Burmese girl
As lovely as the day.
Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,
her teeth were ivory;
I said, "For twenty silver pieces,
Maiden, sleep with me."
She looked at me, so pure, so sad,
The loveliest thing alive,
And in her lisping, virgin voice,
Stood out for twenty-five. — George Orwell

It's amazing what you can do when you get creative. — A.D. Posey

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer. — Mark Billingham

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming. — Nhat Hanh

Red. Red, the colour of the Regency, scrawled over with the iconography of the border forts, growing, fluttering. These were the banners of Ravenel. Not only the banners, but men and riders, flowing over the hilltop like wine from an over-full cup, staining and darkening its slopes, and spreading. — C.S. Pacat

Logic only gives a man what he needs ... Magic gives him what he wants. — Tom Robbins