Pliny the Elder Quotes

Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

Pliny the Elder

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Child

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I don't have to work; I need to work.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Need

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Time
  • Help

• My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Dad

• As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Child
  • Green
  • Fan

• I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Like

• Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Humanity

• We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.

  

  Bryce Wilson
  • Control
  • Beyonce

• If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover to the ten-year is only 35 basis points, and 25 basis points into the 30-year - it's a fairly small spillover effect.

  

  Gary Shilling
  • Looks
  • Average
  • Periods

• I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Drama
  • Understand
  • Eagles

• Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

  

  David Cohen
  • Work
  • Success
  • Couple

• Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

  

  Pliny the Elder