Plautus Quotes

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Purpose

• Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

  

  Xenophon
  • Great
  • Running
  • Horse

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Mission
  • Graffiti

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I do not cook.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Cook

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Always
  • Chance

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Band

• I have a sweet tooth problem. On tour, in catering, the dessert was always so good. When we started the tour I was in the best shape of my life, but by the end of it I was horrible.

  

  Kevin McHale
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sweet

• I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • People

• I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • My Life

• I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Water
  • Car
  • Jump

• Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

  

  Plautus
  • Bad