Michaelides Author Quotes & Sayings

[T]his progress of the physical sciences, which the passions and interest do not interfere to disturb; wherein it is not thought that birth, profession, or appointment have given a right to judge what the individual is not in a situation to understand; this more certain progress cannot be observed, unless enlightened men shall search in the other sciences to bring them continually together. This progress at every step exhibits the model they ought to follow; according to which they may form a judgment of their own efforts, ascertain the false steps they may have taken, preserve themselves from pyrrhonism as well as credulity, and from a blind mistrust or too extensive submission to the authorities even of men of reputation and knowledge. — Marquis De Condorcet

I'm shy in my personal life. — Ryan Seacrest

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. — Carter G. Woodson

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?' — Diana Ross

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. — Demetri Martin

And his Soul besought him to depart, but he would not, so great was his love. And the sea came nearer, and sought to cover him with its waves, and when he knew that the end was at hand he kissed with mad lips the cold lips of the Mermaid, and the heart that was within him brake. And as through the fullness of his love his heart did break, the Soul found an entrance and entered in, and was one with him even as before. And the sea covered the young Fisherman with its waves. — Oscar Wilde

Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one
says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was a peculiar odor, the smell of sexual violation, a mixture of rotting flesh and underarm stench. They shivered even though the heat belowdecks would've suffocated the weak. Our desecrated brothers survived because, as best we could, we reminded them of who they were. — Daniel Black

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch. — Jason Bateman