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Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Walls Creative Solitude Spark Lost

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

Anita Sarkeesian

Love Time Identity Mom Video Games

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

John Philip Sousa

Music Mind Mean Average False Would

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

Amanda Harlech

Love Power Feel Attention You Never

As I've long said, the farm bill is in need of major reform. At first chance, I voted to remove direct payments. Both the House and the Senate passed bills that end direct payments, and as we move forward, I hope we can work out the rest of the issues to implement the necessary reforms.

Stephen Fincher

Work Hope Chance Rest Forward End

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Tony Visconti

Father Teacher Better Never Days

At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles.

Rivers Cuomo

Change Music Job Youth Listening

No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

Russell Smith

Shoes Man College You Glory Matter

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

Rosie O'Donnell

Family Think Down Will Watch Sit

I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

Mary Steenburgen

Work Me Think Worry Place Go

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Michael Moore

Love Live Time Men People College

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Johnny Depp

Life Family Angry Child Appreciate

I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person.

Austin Butler

Person Mess Through Rebellious