Ilkyaz Kocatepe Quotes & Sayings

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection. — Frederick Lenz

this window here, a boy once yelled, Watch — Anthony Doerr

Women were a whole other species when it came to understanding them. — Millicent Ashby

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) — William Shakespeare

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look. — Delta Burke

I'm not the gambling type. I've never understood how some people can get addicted to games in which the probability of losing is so high. They're not stupid people. They know the odds aren't in their favor, yet they risk more than they can possibly afford to lose.
Right now, I think I finally get it.
Losing isn't what drives them. It's the glimmer of that one spectacular win. — Leisa Rayven

Through her the battling man becomes sublime,
and fairy tales are spun from gray-maned storms;
From moments' tears immortal pearls are formed
And dulcet wonders cradle bloody times

("She Rests") — Konstantin Balmont

I often sit over against myself, as before a stranger, and wonder how the unnameable active principle that calls itself to life has adapted itself even to this form. All other expressions lie in a winter sleep, life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death; - it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct - it has reinforced us with dullness, so that we do not go to pieces before the horror, which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thought - it has awakened in us the sense of comradeship, so that we escape the abyss of solitude - it has lent us the indifference of wild creatures, so that in spite of all, we perceive the positive in every moment, and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness. Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark. But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up. Those — Erich Maria Remarque