Giannakopoulos Tik Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft. — Tennessee Williams

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. — Franz Kafka

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. — Thomas Mann

Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. — Stephenie Meyer

Look for God like a man on fire looks for water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers! — Joan Benoit

Dying felt like being tickled. It felt like tiny fingers running across my body in a dark world where it was okay to laugh loudly and badly. — R.K. Ryals

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. — John Mayer

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle

So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we don't. — Dan Kimball