Quintilian Quotes
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.Quintilian
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Natalia Makarova -
J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
LaToya Jackson -
I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
Barry Mann -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
Taylor Lautner -
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
Adam Carolla -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple -
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul -
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
Adam Lambert
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if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.
Ann Coulter -
I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
Daniel Craig -
To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau -
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes -
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
Soren Kierkegaard -
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian