Petrakis Long Island Quotes

#1. My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. 'The torch', 'the paper', but 'my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own.

John Marsden

#2. Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Nhat Hanh

#3. The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

Vladimir Bukovsky

#4. You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

Charlie Kaufman

#5. It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits

S. N. Behrman

#7. In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

John MacAulay

#8. Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

Henry A. Kissinger

#9. Lolita should make all of us - parents, social workers, educators - apply ourselves with still greater vigilance and vision to the task of bringing up a better generation in a safer world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. You don't always have to say what's on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That's called patience.

Art Hochberg