Diogenes Quotes

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Team

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Sympathy

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
  • War
  • Help
  • Free

• I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Morning

• The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Own

• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Idiots

• Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • American
  • Simple

• Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Today
  • See
  • Kings

• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • Being
  • Well

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• I don't even sing in the shower.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Sing
  • Even
  • Shower

• What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Struggle

• When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Author

• There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • People

• I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I don't think I worry too much about whether to include a melody line or not in a song. That will come along in a natural fashion. I have always said that a song and a lyric writes itself. I really don't think too much about the actual writing, the arrangements or even the playing. It's second nature by now.

  

  Thomas Börje Forsberg Bathory
  • Song
  • Melody
  • Arrangements

• The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

  

  Diogenes