Quintilian Quotes

Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.

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• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Influence
  • Skin
  • Disappointed

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Africa
  • House of Representatives
  • Subcommittee

• Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Star
  • Thought
  • First

• I have a good relationship with Lifetime.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Lifetime

• Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Friends

• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Love
  • Why
  • Awards

• As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Always
  • Abortion
  • Late

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• I just really love being in my pajamas.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Being
  • Really

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• I wouldn't be doing this dumb ass live-stream if I wasn't, so get over it.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Live
  • Dumb

• Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.

  

  Karl Marx

• When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • World
  • Art
  • Why

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • People

• I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Live
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.

  

  Quintilian