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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fight Circle Embrace Human Ability

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

Cool House Party Said Follow See

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Morning Style Coffee Long Page Risk

My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and once someone actually hired a screenwriter to adapt one of my books - but it all came to nothing, so I tried not to get too excited when a Hollywood suitor came calling for 'Admission,' my fourth novel.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Stars Someone Adapt Three Hollywood

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Creative Writing You Down Know Want

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Better Know Nothing Useless Things

From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

Family Women Alone Money Planning

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

Athlete Why Always Something OK

One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

Value Price Judging Way Housing

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

School Husband Lived Us Five Raise

Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.

Me Impact Someone Find Important

Genes are not destiny!

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Time Myself Bear Always Obligation

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