Xenakis Metaxeirismena Quotes

#1. You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?

Gail Mazur

#2. In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity.

Timur Vermes

#3. The main function of color should be to serve expression.

Henri Matisse

#4. I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as for readers - when I think about them I like to think they read the same books I do.

Kevin Keck

#5. But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Amy Harmon

#6. Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#7. Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out.

Junot Diaz

#8. The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

Edgar Degas

#9. Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

Paul McGann

#10. Imperfect action is always better than perfect inaction!

Pablo Pasqualino

#11. You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

Julie Bowen

#12. No matter where you go, no matter what you touch, there is cancer and syphilis. It is written in the sky; it flames and dances, like an evil portent. It has eaten into our souls and we are nothing but a dead thing like the moon.

Henry Miller

#13. 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

Patrick Stump