Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba Quotes

#1. It's always something we have to negotiate - the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. - Author: David Levithan

#2. ... Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink. - The Narrator. - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well? - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#4. The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. - Author: Gary Larson

#5. My style kinda comes from the music I listen to. - Author: Willow Smith

#6. I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! - The Narrator. - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

#7. An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures. - Author: Cindy Margolis

#9. Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time. - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. - Author: Howard Zinn

#11. It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away. - Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

#12. Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. - Author: Gary Oldman

#13. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long. - Author: Ernest King

#14. {And as Mousa said to his page, "I'll not give until I reach the junction of the two seas, though I march on for ages"} Chapter 18 verse 60 - Author: Qur'an

#15. If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV. - Author: John Prine

#16. Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people ... and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say! - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

#17. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. - Author: Anthony Bourdain

#18. I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that. - Author: Peter Gould

#19. Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the
best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing
something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever
get there. - Author: Laurie David

#20. There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba - Author: Nikos Kazantzakis