Pliny the Elder Quotes

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

Pliny the Elder

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• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Different
  • Free

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Friends
  • Football
  • Pressure

• I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Pay
  • Films

• The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Government
  • Finding

• I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Why
  • Job
  • Attention

• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never
  • Mistake
  • Politics

• The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Know
  • Position

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Nature
  • Popular

• Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • Autumn

• Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Player
  • June

• Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.

  

  Aeschylus

• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  

  Kevin Spacey

• I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Life
  • World
  • Interesting

• I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Guilty

• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

  

  Pliny the Elder