Akhlys Greek Quotes

#1. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Lucille Clifton

#2. Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

Carl Sagan

#3. Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification - then you learn to value it differently.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.

M.R. James

#5. A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said.
"Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel."
"Easy mistake to make," Jem said.

Cassandra Clare

#6. If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

Bruce Nash

#8. If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Kim Campbell