Spyridakis Tom Quotes & Sayings

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. — Berkeley Breathed

Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui. The enigmas of the symbolists and the ecstasies of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its diverting novelty and appeal. Only the somber philosophy of the decadents could help us, and this we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diablism of our penetrations. Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. It was this frightful emotional need which led us eventually to that detestable course which even in my present fear I mention with shame and timidity
that hideous extremity of human outrage, the abhorred practice of grave-robbing. — H.P. Lovecraft

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain
Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art — Ndiritu Wahome

Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible. — Ron Currie Jr.

My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything. — Emily Yoffe

While Genesis borrows the science of its day, it does so in order to make its main points about Who created the world and What it is made up of--nature, human nature, supernature. Failure to distinguish between these two kinds of issues has caused people to miss the doctrine and concentrate instead on its wrappings. — Gabriel Fackre

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book. — J.C. Ryle

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up. — Nelson DeMille

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them. — Muhtar Kent