Mytilineos Quotes & Sayings

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. — Albert Einstein

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth. — Vitruvius

They say desire is this endless loop. You can't get out of it even when you get what you desire."
"Why is that?"
"Because as soon as you get what you want, you're going to want it again, or want more. And since you can never really be satisfied, you suffer. Or if you use up what you desired, you suffer even more. — Peter Gould

...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are. — H.P. Wood

If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel. — Kasey Kahne

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired. — William Monahan

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. — Graham Greene

At home, she sulked with extravagance, and I learned early that silence was anything but peaceful. She was always upset about some slight, real or imagined, and more than capable of creating a full-blown crisis out of thin air. — Sara Gruen

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. — Donald Barthelme

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager. — Homer

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel

You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers on value. I think to just say, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today. And I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. — Howard Warren Buffett

It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational
order matters that are not susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those
of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a
frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness
of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen
like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again. — Hermann Hesse