Zafiris Melas Quotes & Sayings

I am free to dream.
I am free to love.
I am free to write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do. — Philip Kerr

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. — Stephen Kinzer

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. — Leo Buscaglia

All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all the way to a caravan in Hollywood and, for a moment, when he had got as far away from school and reality as it was possible to go, he was reasonably happy; then it would begin the return journey, thump him on the head, and leave him in exactly the place he had started from. And all the time it got nearer and nearer to the morning. — Nick Hornby

Terraforming, I want to suggest, is a science-fictional representation of globalization. Central to both processes is the logic of simile, a figure of speech in which two things are compared explicitly. Many of the debates over globalization can be understood as a debate over precisely how explicit the comparability between the global and the local is or ought to be. Does-should-globalization homogenize the localities of our world? — Seo-Young Chu

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists. — Jess Walter

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day. — Carla Bruni