Plutarch Quotes

For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Die

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • History
  • Famous
  • Weather

• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Home
  • Enjoy
  • Fact

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Art
  • Worship
  • Him

• When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Game
  • Deserve

• Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Story

• There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Lead

• Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Going
  • Hip Hop
  • Bear

• Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Kind
  • Doing

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Feeling
  • Idea
  • Birth

• I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

  

  Ann Rutherford

• Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Single

• In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Steps
  • Boxes

• To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Reality

• For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.

  

  Plutarch