Kostoula Vallianos Quotes & Sayings

Hayati?"

"Yeah, that one. What does it mean?"

He was quiet for so long she had started to think he'd never answer. "There is no English translation for this name," he finally said.

She smiled. "Try. Get as close as you can."

His dark eyes searched her gaze. "It means, my life."

Her forehead wrinkled. "My life?"

Hani pulled her head down and forced her to rest against his chest. He said nothing for a suspended moment and then, "My life," he murmured. "My love. — Jaid Black

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that. — Gwen Stefani

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time. — Tadashi Yanai

This wine makes me feel like I'm bathed in amnion, breathless, fed by the motherbloodflow in the umbilical vein, fetal, slippery and tumbling over and over in the warmth of the beating womb, warm amnion, warmnion. — Samuel Shem

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. 'What's the point?' he said. 'Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. — Daniel Amory

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale. — Steve Martin

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. — Charlotte Bronte

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency. — Robert A. Caro

The taste you will find in the chest of Tea you won't be able to find it in any other chest. — S.N

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles. — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen — A.A. Milne

If you knew the world was ending, and you had the chance to stop it, would you?"
"Of course. [...] Why do you ask?"
"Oh," I said. "It's for a school project."
"That's interesting."
I shook my head. "Not really. Like I said: it's just a school thing."
Zooey turned toward me, giving me her undivided attention. "Not the question - the fact that you'd even need to ask. — Shaun David Hutchinson