Makis Papadimitriou Quotes & Sayings

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be — Gordon Brown

I hate the idea of repeating myself. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem. — Christian Fennesz

The world isn't big enough for all of us. — S.R. Crawford

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true. — Brian Evenson

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real — Robert Mugabe

I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes. — Sherwood Smith

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? — Bill Vaughan

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better. — Rod McKuen

The unwedded and ascetic life is the direct way to the heavenly, immortal life, for heaven is nothing else than life liberated from the conditions of the species, supernatural, sexless, absolutely subjective life. — Ludwig Feuerbach

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together. — Hugh Jackman

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me — John Green

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation. — Don Hewitt