Monemvasia Quotes & Sayings

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced ... that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed. — John Cage

It is so tiring to hate someone you love. — Simone De Beauvoir

In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street. — Charles Bracelen Flood

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people. — Clint Eastwood

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. — Evan Esar

Computers are like a bicycle for the mind. — Steve Jobs

Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it. — Jonathan Tropper

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird. — Andrew Dominik

Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never had she let herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go with her in this way. Her lover could play with her belly, but he had never lived in there; he could touch her breast, but he never drunk from it. — Milan Kundera

The Underground Peasant Movement adopted the slogan of "As little, as late, and as bad as possible," and set about sabotaging deliveries — Diane Ackerman

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. — Robert Rauschenberg

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites. — Samuel R. Delany

The one taken underwater of Mel's garden of women, — Rachel Caine

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy ... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? — Humphry Davy