Glykeria Smyrneika Quotes & Sayings

I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz

he's the only thing that ever made me forget what it felt like to forget. — Maggi Myers

Although she was not a great reader, Mma Potokwane was a firm believer in the power of the book. The more books that Botswana had, in her view, the better. It would be on books that the future would be based; books and the people who knew how to use them. — Alexander McCall Smith

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. — Mignon McLaughlin

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. — Timothy Ferriss