All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency”
“Russians are lucky”
“Ere long intelligence”
“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb. Address at the Belgrade train station”
“On Light And Other High Frequency Phenomena”
“Roentgen Rays or Streams”
“The Problem of Increasing Human Energy”
“The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires”
“The Future of the Wireless Art”
“I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear. Toda Raba (1934), quoted in Kimon Friar's introduction to The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1958), p. xxvi”
“We are not simple people who believe in happiness; nor weaklings who crumple to the ground in distress at the first reverse; nor skeptics observing the bloody effort of marching humanity from the lofty heights of a mocking, sterile wit. Believing in the fight, though we entertain no illusions about it, we are armed against every disappointment. Toda Raba (1934), ch. 10”
“God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise! Freedom and Death (1956), ch. 3”
“We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal. Freedom and Death (1956), ch. 13”
“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. "Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine”
“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God." And the almond tree blossomed. The Fratricides (1961), epigraph”
“You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am. In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12”
“This is what I want!”
“Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούμαι τίποτα, είμαι λεύτερος.”
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
“We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx , Lenin and revolution”
“When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words Nina Simone , Music for Lovers 1978”
“Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam /You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools? Nina Simone , Backlash Blues 1967”
“the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown Backlash Blues 1967”
“Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know what it means to be me/Then you'd see and agree/That everyone should be free/But, oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good/Oh, Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!" Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality /For my sister, my brother, my people, and me Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.”
“The search for rigorous formulation in linguistics has a much more serious motivation than mere concern for logical niceties or the desire to purify well”