Kountourianos Quotes & Sayings

Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better - fine. But you don't need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled. Religion is like a lift in the shoe, and I say just don't ask me to wear your shoes. And let's not go down and nail lifts onto the natives' feet. — George Carlin

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
I lay unto the grievous charge of others. — William Shakespeare

There aren't really rules for painting, but there's certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They're like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention. — Vija Celmins

If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Bruno's brain might have parachuted somewhere over the Atlantic. — Jonathan Lethem

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. — Alessandro Del Piero

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room. — Patrick O'Brian

Home will always be here
Unseen, out of sight
Where I disappear and hide
I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye
So I'll spread out my wings and fly — Owl City

Sometimes you have to find the sunny side of the street in a weird neighborhood. — Kim Stagliano

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. — Francesca Lia Block

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love. — William Shakespeare

It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out. — Erol Alkan

Isn't it interesting how much we dislike the days that allow us to enjoy our weekends? The days that pay. If you don't like Monday's, you're not living your authentic life! You're in the wrong job! What do you really want to do with your life ... ? — James A. Murphy

One book, printed in the Heart's own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stack's — Jan Luyken

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine