Kosmidis Ioannis Quotes & Sayings

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together. — George Carlin

Love is special, and anyone who gives you their heart is giving you a part of them. — Elizabeth Rudnick

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books. — Jonathan Safran Foer

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? — William Blake

I realized that the childish impression I had always had of my father, as Just Lawgiver, was entirely wrong. We were utterly dependent on this man, who was not only deluded and ignorant, but incompetent in every way. What was more, I knew that my mother was incapable of standing up to him. It was like walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats. And standing outside the Lyceum, I was struck with a black, incredulous horror, which in fact was not at all unlike the horror I had felt at twelve, sitting on a bar stool in our sunny little kitchen in Plano. Who is in control here? I thought, dismayed. Who is flying this plane? — Donna Tartt

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder. — Jonathan Franzen

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola

Ann: How does God's character fit into things that seem totally against his character? — K. Howard Joslin

I secretly assumed, as poets do,
The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges

As long love exist in this so do hatred — Ak

I could lie my way out of existence. — M. Pierce

He pumped me as if there was no tomorrow — Jack Scarborough

Say nothing if you don't understand, stay silent if you do. — Ted Bell

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point. — Meghan Daum