Giannakidis Quotes & Sayings

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves. — Ramez Naam

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me. — Elisabeth Moss

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place. — Anita Diamant

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment. But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive. — Alan Palomo

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon. — Douglas Rushkoff

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile ... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk. — Tom Wolfe

In biologist Stephen Jay Gould's illustrative phrase, human beings should be seen as a "tiny, late-arising twig on life's enormously arborescent bush."14 That — Matthew Calarco

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives. — Rudyard Kipling

The words sounded like a mournful incantation. — Dan Simmons

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana. — Narendra Modi

And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of dogs barking far off or a driving hailstorm at dawn and you suddenly fail to grasp what it is you have done, what madness might have possessed you, what devil lured you from your home to the end of the world? — Amos Oz

Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you. — Stephen Coonts

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it. — Gabrielle Union

Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight. — Takuboku Ishikawa