Polycrates Quotes

#1. In the year 540 B.C. or thereabouts, on the island of Samos, there came to power a tyrant named Polycrates. He seems to have started as a caterer and then gone on to international piracy.

Carl Sagan

#2. The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

St. Jerome

#3. He's an excellent listener. Most cats are. Except Siameses, the chatty little bastards. I

Anthony Marra

#4. Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Sometimes love was sacred, the most holy and powerful force in the universe. Sometimes it was a warm, fuzzy feeling. Occasionally it was a wildfire of passion that, like cognac, inflamed every cell of your body.
And sometimes it was just a decision, plain and simple.

G.A. McKevett

#6. I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

Sean Sasser

#7. I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

Ellen Forney

#8. Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

#9. Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Ben Bernanke

#10. The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.

Wassily Kandinsky

#11. Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.

John Burnside

#12. From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

Elizabeth George Speare