Politakis George Quotes & Sayings

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I'm 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion. — Tahereh Mafi

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps. — Lyndon B. Johnson

[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high ... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you. — Terry Pratchett

In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits! — Austin Kleon

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun. — Pete Cashmore

He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds. — Anonymous

All the while Martin attempted to catch his aunt with a remorseful gaze, but the young woman was reabsorbed into her mother's orbit, and though Anna embraced him, pressed on him the importance of visiting soon, he could feel that she was already very far away, not really seeing him, but cruising with distant eyes and a feather's touch over the summits of all her disappointments. — Carola Perla

When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer. — Gene Weingarten

And now - Piertotum Locomotor! cried Professor McGonagall. — J.K. Rowling

Glory to the the Great God! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time. — Fred Thompson