Giorgos Quotes

#1. I watched you with all the light and darkness I have
Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos Seferis

#2. And if the soul
Is to know itself
It is into a soul
That it must look:
The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Giorgos Seferis

#3. Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

Stephen Hawking

#5. Souls shriveled by public sins, each holding office like a bird in its cage

Giorgos Seferis

#6. Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

David Luiz

#7. Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Giorgos Seferis

#8. Every morning the warm water reminds me
that I have nothing else alive near me.

Giorgos Seferis

#9. I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Giorgos Seferis

#10. The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.

Michael Crichton

#11. And a soul
if it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Giorgos Seferis

#12. For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

#13. Like a bird with broken wing
that has traveled through wind for years ...
I sleep and my heart stays awake ...

Giorgos Seferis

#14. Chief Engineer Naomi Nagata towered over him. She stood almost two full meters tall, her mop of curly hair tied back into a black tail, her expression halfway between amusement and annoyance.

James S.A. Corey

#15. I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Henry Rollins

#16. What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

African Spir

#17. I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.

Rick Riordan

#18. I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

Fabrice Muamba

#19. I don't want to be anything today; tomorrow, we'll see.

Giorgos Seferis

#20. Holding Hawke's gaze in a way that not many men could, Walker said, "You will be good to her." Not a statement, but an order.
Hawke's wolf stirred. "Do you think I'd be otherwise?"
"If I did, you'd be dead.

Nalini Singh

#21. In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel Reardon

#22. A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#23. In every corner a gramophone shop
in every shop a hundred gramophones
in every gramophone a hundred records
in every record
an alive person playing with a dead one.
Take the steel needle and separate them
if you can.

Giorgos Seferis

#24. Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

Mitchell Baker

#25. To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.

Giorgos Seferis

#26. Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.

Allen Covert

#27. I mean, in any case, that when you really feel something, you face the difficulty of expressing it. And that, after all, forms your style.

Giorgos Seferis

#28. Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.

Giorgos Seferis

#29. A negative gesture. Little by little he began to get the coughing under control again. Mike was right; something was going to happen, and

Stephen King

#30. They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

Giorgos Seferis

#31. Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.

Giorgos Seferis

#32. Our friends have left us
Perhaps we never saw them, perhaps
we encountered them when sleep
still brought us very close to the breathing wave
perhaps we search for them because we search for the other life,
beyond the statues.

Giorgos Seferis

#33. How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Giorgos Seferis