Dante Alighieri Quotes

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Takes
  • Shoe

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Art
  • True

• Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Journey
  • Rose

• By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • World
  • Worry

• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Selfish

• You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Guy

• The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

  

  Neil Postman
  • People
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Texas

• The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Good

• There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • People
  • Dark
  • Lonely

• Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Positive

• I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• 'The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Purpose

• I knew I had to be sure-footed about the issues I was talking about. When you're twenty-nine years old, who the hell is going to think you're credible? It wasn't enough to have ideas; I had to know my facts. I had to demonstrate command from the minute I started running. I understood that was the test I had to pass.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Running

• What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Always
  • Dramatic
  • Explanation

• All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Chess

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Feel
  • Diversity
  • Annoyed

• Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

  

  Anna Benson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Annoyed

• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Annoyed
  • Wisest
  • Loss Of Time