Mikonosz Quotes & Sayings

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. — Louise Penny

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. — Stephen Crane

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of ... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false. — Victor Hugo

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard. — Kimora Lee Simmons

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation. — Dalai Lama

Washington, like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington was a Deist, and did not commune, which is quite consistent with his being a vestryman. In England, where vestries have secular functions, it is not unusual for Unitarians to vestrymen, there being no doctrinal subscription required for that office. Washington's letters during the Revolution occasionally indicate his recognition of the hand of Providence in notable public events, but in the thousands of his letters I have never been able to find the name of Christ or any reference to him.

{Conway was employed to edit Washington's letters} — Moncure D. Conway

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through. — John Steinbeck

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that. — Blake Lively

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you. — Annie Lennox

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it. — David Hare

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting — Jakob Dylan

I'faith, 'tis an Occasion of no small Satisfaction to commence this Enquiry into the Romances & Fiction of the English--& their antick Neighbors, the Irish & the Scotch--free at last from the Tyranny of scurvy Translators--& to reacquaint myself with the earliest Works that engender'd my Love for the Novel. O Swift, O Fielding, O Sterne, I hail thee after too long an Absence, keen to revel once more in your rare Inventions and pricking Raillery, along with those of your less-fam'd Countrymen. Prithee look kindly on these Efforts of yr humble Servant to blazon your Glories to the gaping Pucklick. — Steven Moore

I'm fine," I tell Kirk. "Catch anything?"
"Oh, thank god," he says, and then goes on to tell me about the "big one" that got away, like it always does.
And I wonder how many lies it takes to make the world go around. — Matthew Quick

It's interesting about diseases, how they peak and tank. — David Cronenberg