"All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Grateful Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe that the observations about the orderliness of the physical universe, and the apparently exceptional fine-tuning of the conditions of the universe for the development of life suggest that an intelligent Creator is responsible.”
“In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.”
“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.”

Source : Steve Allen (1981). “Funny people”, Stein & Day Pub
“There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace...”

Source : "Geographica". Encyclopedia by Strabo, 7 BC.
“We are all born equally far from the sun.”
“You put a tattoo on yourself with the knowledge that this body is yours to have and enjoy while you're here. You have fun with it, and nobody else can control (supposedly) what you do with it. That's why tattooing is such a big thing in prison: it's an expression of freedomâ€”one of the only expressions of freedom there. They can lock you down, control everything, but 'I've got my mind, and I can tattoo my bodyâ€”alter it my way as an act of personal will.'”
“Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.”
“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”

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