Traianos Gioultsis Quotes

#1. The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Horace

#2. Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me ...

Fernando Pessoa

#3. We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. I'm twenty years old and look at me
there isn't a thing I want to do

Markus Zusak

#5. I love you so much, dear.

Stephen King

#6. Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

George Carlin

#7. Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

T.E. Lawrence

#9. Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?

Ruth Ozeki

#10. But the paranormal is persuasive; why else does religion persist?

David Mitchell

#11. I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Wislawa Szymborska

#12. There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.

Sheryl Sandberg

#14. Love is not my bag.

Gore Vidal

#15. I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'

Jonathan Dimbleby