Stefanakis Notis Quotes & Sayings

money was being scrimped to put food on the table rather than blown on a night out at the wrestling. — James Dixon

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money. — Mickey Cohen

Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of people), and also because of this breaking of the true pact between the body and the soul. Greek art coincided with the beginning of geometry and with athleticism, the art of the Middle Ages with the craftsmen's guilds, the art of the Renaissance with the beginning of mechanics, etc ... Since 1914 there has been a complete cut. Even comedy is almost impossible. There is only room for satire (when was it easier to understand Juvenal?). Art will never be reborn except from amidst a general anarchy - it will be epic no doubt, because affliction will have simplified a great many things ... It is therefore quite useless for you to envy Leonardo or Bach. Greatness in our times must take a different course. Moreover it can only be solitary, obscure and without an echo ... (but without an echo, no art). — Simone Weil

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages. — Brendan Sexton III

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. — Stephen Hawking

No matter how you feel, you made progress today. — Kris Carr

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice. — Cathy Moriarty

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. — Adam Smith

Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora. — Scott Lynch

The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin? — Philo

I'm not a royal family watcher. — Bill Nighy

He looks immaculate.
Flawless, especially as he stands here among the dirt and destruction, surrounded by the bleakest colors this landscape has to offer. He's a vision of emerald and onyx, silhouetted in the sunlight in the most deceiving way. He could be glowing. That could be a halo around his head. This could be the world's way of making an example out of irony. Because Warner is beautiful in ways even Adam isn't. — Tahereh Mafi

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability. — Vernor Vinge