Quintilian Quotes

Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Popular
  • Show

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Being
  • Saying
  • Islam

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Real
  • Education
  • Understanding

• There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Question
  • Answers

• The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Art
  • Values
  • Questions

• I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Parents
  • Eat
  • Chubby

• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Friends
  • Sense

• Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Think
  • Black
  • Film

• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Words

• Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Know
  • Presence

• After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • You
  • Seriously

• It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

  

  Billie Jean King

• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Life
  • Past
  • Giving

• Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • People

• I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Professional
  • Taxes
  • Bunch

• On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Order
  • Taxes
  • Whole

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian