Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: February 18, 1883 - October 26, 1957

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GodBestSleepDoorHonorDoors

By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

John Fleming

FamilyTimeOverLeftFeedMaybe

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Robert Hunter

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I do have siblings, but I don't have any brothers.

Sonequa Martin-Green

BrothersAny

We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.

Roma Downey

PositiveWorkPowerPeopleWork Hard

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Roy Orbison

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French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

Mireille Guiliano

LoveWomenFoodYourselfParents

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

Moby

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Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

Louis Theroux

StoryAmericaEnoughAnimalsDanger

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

Jonathan Franzen

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You'll never see me in an airport without a DDP YOGA shirt. It says, 'It Ain't Your Mama's Yoga' on the back and 'DDP YOGA' in the front. Every time I walk around, people see the shirt, and it makes them smile.

Diamond Dallas Page

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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Clara Zetkin

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The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Annie Lennox

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