Plutarch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
-
As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
-
I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
-
There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
-
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
-
Cut off the head of the snake
-
There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.
-
If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.
-
I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.
-
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
-
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.
-
Yeah, I like to gamble.
-
I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.
-
I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
-
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
-
There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.
-
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
-
It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
-
I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.
-
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
-
His lips, his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.
-
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
