Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HappinessPastHappyLookBackBeen

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

Jimmy Fallon

SportsFootballI AmMeThank You

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

Andrea Bocelli

MusicPurposePeopleCuriosityUp

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Robert Mapplethorpe

ArtMustEasePublicItself

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

Steven Chu

WorkMotherTimeFocusSchoolWay

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Townsend Harris

FirstTwoOrderThingsMayCommerce

I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted.

Ronen Bergman

HomeTimePowerfulAliveDeadMore

One of the things I really love about restaurants is that in many ways, they are the ultimate democratic institutions, where you get to walk in the door, plunk down your money, and for however long that you're there, you can be anyone you want to be.

Ruth Reichl

LoveMoneyWalkDoorLongYou

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.

Monica Crowley

PoliticalTrailComfortableOthers

I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.

Diana Rigg

MyselfHappyThoughtPersonWay

Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.

Dean Norris

DayNew YorkCityMeFlyFree

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

Chuck Palahniuk

AudienceOrderFilmMaintainVast

When I was preparing 'Kiss Me, Kate,' I did go to the Museum of Broadcasting and watched an old kinescope of Alfred Drake doing the role on a television special. It was interesting, but I didn't feel any need to try to copy him.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

KissMeFeelInterestingDoingCopy

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