Dante Alighieri Quotes

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.

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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dad

• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Audience

• I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • System
  • Connected

• I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • Knowledge
  • Quality
  • Wonder

• I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World

• Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Real

• I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

  

  David Harewood
  • Remember
  • History
  • Culture

• Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

  

  Freddy Adu

• New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Time
  • Great

• One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Friend

• Everyone has a freak flag inside them. Whether they're brave enough to show it is another matter.

  

  Alex Lawther
  • Brave
  • Inside
  • Flag

• Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Style
  • Story
  • Influence

• I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Radio
  • New Music
  • Stevie Wonder

• The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Water
  • Sky
  • Price

• Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita,mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,ché la diritta via era smarrita.

  

  Dante Alighieri