Gjirokaster Quotes

#1. If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.

Ismail Kadare

#2. Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Ismail Kadare

#3. Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Derek Sivers

#4. If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. What is gentlest in love is love's violence.
Losing yourself in love, you reach love's goal.
Love makes you suffer, as love makes you whole.
Love steals your everything and makes you rich.
Love is both meaningless and poetry.
Captured by love, by love you are set free.

Marilyn Nelson

#6. Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

Agatha Christie

#7. My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

Gillian Flynn

#8. Improving your abilities in high-priority areas is always a good investment in yourself that will pay off in the long run.

John C. Maxwell

#9. To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

Jeff Kinney

#10. Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

Asa Larsson

#11. Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

Dana Goodyear

#12. The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Will Rogers

#13. Recognize your failures when they happen but don't dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you've done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.

Jason Versey