Plutarch Quotes

According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Go
  • Grapes

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Want
  • Generation

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Driving
  • Edge

• I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • People
  • Love
  • Challenge

• Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Good
  • Respect

• I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Bitcoin
  • Skype

• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Reality
  • Hand
  • Always

• It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Red

• I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  

  Max Beerbohm
  • Period

• Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

  

  Clifton Taulbert
  • Lives
  • Communities
  • Volunteerism

• Young players are more hungry because they have not achieved what some of the older players have.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki

• He coude songes make, and wel endite.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Serious
  • Deep

• According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.

  

  Plutarch