Kyparissi Lakonia Quotes & Sayings

The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked. — Henry Hazlitt

After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make. — Wendy Mass

I'm a critic. I write essays about works of art. It's like being a eunuch in the seraglio, but unrequited love is the sweetest, and I have the proper distance. I can compress the qualities of beauty I've been trained to see, store them up, and bring them out at will, rapid-fire, in the combinations I want. — Mark Helprin

What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity. — Katy Perry

I always perform live. I've even received a cortisone injection when I was losing my voice before a big gig so I could fulfill my obligation to the promoter. I felt it the days following after the gig in my throat, but it was nice to know I didn't let anyone down. The show must go on. — Willam Belli

They never miss an opportunity to lord over the others. Either they're very vain or very aware. To look powerful is to be powerful. — Victoria Aveyard

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. — Bernard Williams

For me, being memorable is more important than winning. — Ricki Lake

I think that all writers feel alienated ... I know that I do ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated. — John Le Carre

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time. — Jodi Benson

It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Everything I had learned or assimilated from my parents I now regarded as unreliable, and needing to be rethought from scratch. In fact, I probably went further-I felt that everything my parents believed was by definition wrong, and that if I ever felt myself in agreement with my parents I should immediately recant. Everything ... needed to be jettisoned. But in a way what they said wasn't the problem: what I was more worried about was the attitudes, prejudices, beliefs I might have picked up from them subconsciously or before I was old enough to even know what I was learning. Effectively, I had to question everything I believed, and never accept my own instincts. It required constant vigilance; it was intellectually exhausting. — Lynn Barber

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like. — Stephen Curry