Youlika Skafida Quotes & Sayings

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance. — Washington Irving

I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement in high, fluted, English intellectual tones. — Thomas Merton

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with. — Neil Gaiman

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? — Stephen R. Covey

I tend to stay in character between scenes ... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop. — Christian Bale

I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics. — Anna Netrebko

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride. — Tom Waits

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. — John Dos Passos

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth. — Henry David Thoreau

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork. — Sue Grafton