History of the
Kontoyiannis family; page
in Greek
Stelios Kazantzidis, a singer and
a national hero
Some
interesting quotes:
One service mathematics has rendered to the human
race. It has put common sense back where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next
to the dusty canister labelled "discarded nonsense."
- E.T. Bell
Three things in human life are important. The first is
to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- Henry James
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the
Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
Chance governs all things; necessity, which is far
from having the same purity, comes only later.
- Luis Bunuel
What [...] I aspire to [do is] to give the reader an
experience of convincing reality, nevertheless piercing the shell of detail and
penetrating to the structure of causation and meaning that we always hope for
but never actually experience in the real world. Causation and meaning are
always imagined, no matter how thoroughly we create a model of contemporary
age.
- Orson Scott Card
In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled
urination should automatically disqualify you.
- From Saturday Night Live Deep Thoughts
Through [psychoanalysis] a person could expect to rise
from a state of abject despair into one of everyday unhappiness.
- Sigmund Freud