Kyriakakistours Quotes & Sayings

I bless every sunrise because it marks a new day by your side. — J. Kenner

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught — Oscar Wilde

The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence ... — Yoko Ogawa

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. — Cleopatra

(...) this first-approximation reification of language very easily passes over unnoticed into a harder idealization, especially in everyday parlance. It is this idealization that, for instance, leads people to say that "the language" is degenerating because teenagers don't know how to talk anymore (they were saying that in the eighteenth century too!). It is also behind seeing the dictionary as an authority on the "correct meanings" of words rather than as an attempt to record how words are understood in the speech community. Even linguists adopt this stance all the time in everyday life (especially as teachers of students who can't write a decent paragraph). But once we go inside the heads of speakers to study their own individual cognitive structure, the stance must be dropped. — Ray S. Jackendoff

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the Great Depression; when the overworked millions, who took to the street of Europe and the United States to demand reduction of hours of labor, were replaced by millions of unemployed workers in every advanced country, who no longer demand freedom from work but were forced to beg for work - any work, even in the defense industries where the means for their own destruction were built. — Anonymous

I think I've just gotten really good at accessorizing personally. I've always been good at accessorizing other people, and intellectually, I've known how to accessorize, but I was pretty minimal personally - although I was wearing a ton of rings. — Sophia Amoruso