Barberis Drapetsona Quotes

#1. While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

Georges Bataille

#3. You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

Ally Condie

#5. A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

Christian Dior

#6. I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

Romesh Gunesekera

#7. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. A mortal life with love is endlessly superior to an immortal life without love.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Francis Bacon

#10. The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Tibor Kalman

#11. People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Banksy

#12. A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Winston Churchill

#13. Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

Seneca The Younger

#14. Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

Marty Rubin