Publilius Syrus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
-
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
-
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
-
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
-
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
-
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
-
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
-
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
-
I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
-
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
-
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
-
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
-
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
-
When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
-
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
-
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.
-
Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.
-
I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.
-
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
