Zakros Quotes & Sayings

My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids. — Marlee Matlin

We're collectively living through 1500, when it's easier to see what's broken than what will replace it. — Clay Shirky

Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public. — Alain De Botton

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. — William Hague

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it. — Michael Ruse

Unlike in Daisy's novels, moments of precise reckoning are rare in real life; questions of misinterpretations are not often resolved. Nor do they remain pressingly unresolved. They simply fade. People don't remember clearly, or they die, or the questions die and new ones take their place. — Ian McEwan

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success. — Cheryl Ladd

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. — John Maynard Smith

Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living. — Tom Franklin

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street. — Carson Daly

He put his head down and charged at the mirror. Perhaps it was a teleportation door to another section of the city, perhaps a simple doorway to a room beyond. Or perhaps, Alton dared to imagine in those few desperate seconds, this was some interplanar gate that would being him into a strange and unknown plane of existence!
He felt the tingling excitement of adventure pulling him on as he neared the wonderer thing - then he felt only the impact, the shattering glass, and the unyielding stone wall behind it.
Perhaps it was just a mirror. — R.A. Salvatore