Quintilian Quotes

Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Find
  • Architecture

• I've never played a character that would sing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Character
  • Never
  • Sing

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Handsome

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• I think human nature is eternal and constant.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Human Nature

• Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Music
  • Mathematics
  • Perfume

• When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Fate

• My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Wife
  • Books
  • Read

• I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Think
  • Better
  • Repetition

• I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Words
  • Lost
  • Poetry

• Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.

  

  Maimonides
  • Respect
  • Through
  • Permanent

• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Moving
  • Direction
  • Turn

• It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Sorry
  • Saying
  • Drunk

• The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

  

  Phil Klay

• You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.

  

  Denis Johnson

• He also noted, in explaining his methodology for the workshop, that when he had reflected and meditated on the pre-Hellenic myths until he 'became filled with a myth', the ways in which he thought about natural phenomena and even the entire universe were qualitatively different from the perceptions that woud have arisen if he had been immersed in, say, the patriarchal, industrialized, competitive, Victorian world that was Darwin's frame of reference. Swimme concluded that the myth's have a very deep biological basis and that by allowing ourselves to be filled with a myth, the universe itself is altered because our relationship to the universe is altered in a very real sense.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Universe
  • Myth
  • Filled

• Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Mercy
  • Idols

• Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.

  

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