Iordanou Mitilini Quotes & Sayings

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now. — Tom Felton

I just don't wanna be an ostrich. That's all. — William T. Vollmann

Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend. But it is not so obvious in the areas of character and emotional development. We can "pose" and "put on" for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it - at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves. — Covey

....and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life. — Sam Shepard

Some things will never change. — Bruce Hornsby

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful. — Markus Zusak

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day. — Laozi

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'. — Morgan Freeman

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike ... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise. — Maya Angelou

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal. — Vince Cable

Healing cannot be done by settling a score. — Alice Walker

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress. — Immanuel Kant