Vakis Auzi Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person. — Kelly McClymer

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values. — Isaac Hayes

Each day the first day:
Each day a life. — Dag Hammarskjold

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11. — Jennifer Egan

People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots ... in fact I think they have to be ... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement. — Iain Banks

What the world considers valuable is often not as valuable as what the world considers not valuable. — Art Hochberg

I want to see the smiling face of someone I love ... — Sakura Tsukuba

All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world. — Luc Sante

When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They're like cops that way. — Stephen King

We are the unhealthiest species on the Earth without exception. — Sid Garza-Hillman

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco. — Ireland Baldwin

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. — Henry Ward Beecher

[On Chopin's Preludes:]
His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power. — George Sand

Waters: Not havin' ain't no excuse for not gettin — Charles Fuller

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist. — Soe Hok Gie