Plutarch Quotes
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'Plutarch
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman -
My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
Yuna -
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent -
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
Hallie Ephron -
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham -
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence -
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
Harold Pinter -
You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
Olivia Wilde -
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange -
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
Gabriel Basso -
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman -
Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
Oren Peli -
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
Samantha Shannon
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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
Colin Hay Men at Work -
I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.
David Sylvian -
Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
Condoleezza Rice -
There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.
Anne Beatts -
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
Narendra Modi -
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'
Plutarch