Odysseas Elytis Quotes

#1. I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

John Lasseter

#2. It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

William Osler

#3. Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

Nolan Ryan

#4. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Odysseas Elytis

#5. We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.

Odysseas Elytis

#6. You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

Mike Mentzer

#7. Bliss is not subtractbale.

Odysseas Elytis

#8. I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Anne Tyler

#9. The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.

Odysseas Elytis

#10. I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

Babe Ruth

#11. These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Rupert Everett

#12. Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

John Cheever

#13. It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#14. If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Odysseas Elytis

#15. He obviously didn't get slapped nearly enough for the trouble he stirred up.

April White

#16. Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Barney Frank

#17. It's not a big deal to fall madly in love with someone bright, extraordinary and charismatic; a big deal is to become the matching person, who is worthy to be loved back.

Sahara Sanders

#18. People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

Paulo Coelho