Vasias Alexandrakis Quotes & Sayings

As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves. — Sam Wineburg

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization. — William H. Prescott

This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center. — Henry David Thoreau

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level. — Bobby Robson

Emergency dance party--go away. — Rainbow Rowell

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back. — Tennessee Williams

Oh, it was easy to see why people had whirlwind shipboard romances, for it was a temporary journey into fantasy, where dreams could come true
if only for the duration of the cruise. — Patricia Hagan

It starts with my mother ... .Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That's why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems. — Chuck Wendig

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me. — Aretha Franklin

No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa — Tilopa

And there would come up from the sea its voice; and the sea has no voice, but mysteriously touches the strings within the soul of a man, so that the soul speaks in its own way, each soul lifting its peculiar message. — Jack Williamson

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't. — Morrissey

I felt the warmth of his gaze from the tips of my hair to the tips of my toes. — Fisher Amelie

Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it. — Lauren DeStefano