Themistoklis Bakelas Quotes & Sayings

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'. — Louise Penny

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. — Evan Parker

Happy endings make me puke. — Roman Polanski

What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren. — Vaughn J. Featherstone

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day. — Bryce Harper

Parental wealth is especially important for social mobility, because it can provide informal insurance that allows kids to take more risks in search of more reward. — Robert D. Putnam

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted! — John Galsworthy

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones ... — Jane Goldman

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important. — Madeleine M. Kunin