Syracusans Quotes & Sayings

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on. — Luke Bryan

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. — Van Wyck Brooks

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. — Paul Theroux

He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17 — Nicholas Shakespeare

Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank. — Paulo Coelho

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon — Ken Kesey

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind. — Elvis Costello

As the saying goes, behind every great man is an even greater woman. I guess playing Hera [in Wonder Woman] means that I'm, well, not only Queen of the Gods, I'm better than he is! — Marg Helgenberger

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. — Martha Stewart

It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit. — James Mortimer

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them. — Thucydides

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that. — Ha-Joon Chang