Yorgos Lancaster Quotes & Sayings

Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program. — Thomas M. Reid

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The labor we delight in physics pain. — William Shakespeare

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world. — Matthew Scully

I never do anything that pleases you, so maybe we are better off apart. — Brandy

Do you see how, up close, it's blurry and passionate? And from a distance, whole? — Stephanie Danler

Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions. — Neal Stephenson

Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive. — Daniele Bolelli

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' — Zadie Smith

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. — James Hillman

Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing. — Harper Lee

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it. — Neil Gaiman

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer ... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. — E.B. White