James Loeb Quotes
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
James Loeb
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
Laura Dern
I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'
Laura Mvula
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
Jack Gilbert
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong
But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
Walter Scott
'This is the core of the galaxy,' Horseface said. 'This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.'
Clifford D. Simak
My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
Cory Gardner
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato
My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax in any way, shape or form.
Kevin Hart
Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
Jerry Della Femina
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
Benjamin Bratt
I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.
John Schneider
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. Salinger
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
Pablo Picasso
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
James Loeb
