Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

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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I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Jennifer Hyman

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I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list!

Jenna Ushkowitz

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It's such an intense thing to make a film.

John Hillcoat

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I don't want to play a voice.

Andy Serkis

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Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.

Ron Kind

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In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

Jason Kander

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Joni Mitchell

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When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

DMX

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Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.

Denise Morrison

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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

William Gibson

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I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

Paula Cole

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Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

Mark McKinnon

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