Markopoulos Quotes & Sayings

I am Indonesian. I don't buy fear of western ghosts.
But when you deal with a giant garagasi of sumatera,
there's no word worth enough to express the eeriness. — Toba Beta

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. — Blaise Pascal

I never tried to ingratiate myself with great writers. When a great writer has nothing to say, he does something else, like chopping firewood. A great writer doesn't try to find something to write about, he only writes when he has to. I was no great writer. I've always had the need to unload my thoughts, and so had to live with a kind of mental incontinence, but I've never felt forced to write a novel. Nor, for that matter, have I ever chopped firewood. — Jostein Gaarder

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us. — Tara Brach

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness. — Shri Purohit Swami

There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet," Kynes said. "You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships." This — Frank Herbert

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. — Henry Flynt

Lately ... the Peter Principle has given way to the "Dilbert Principle." The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. — Scott Adams

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. — Julia Child