Persius Quotes

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Movies
  • Teen

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Me
  • Better

• I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Money
  • Amazing
  • Architecture

• I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Football
  • Lucky

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wicket

• Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • War
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Kids
  • Culture

• I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Dying
  • Desert

• I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm very inspired by past music.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Past
  • Inspired

• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time

• The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. 'You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,' Hamin told him. Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Team

• We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • Good

• I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

  

  Jefferson Mays

• Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

  

  Archimedes
  • World
  • Place
  • Lever

• Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People

• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Suffering
  • Animals

• We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

  

  Persius