Plautus Quotes

Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.1

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• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Football

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Religion
  • Prayer

• I can scare myself like a pro.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Myself
  • Like
  • I Can

• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • People
  • School
  • Influence

• It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Person

• We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • King
  • Daily

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • You
  • Cheer

• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Care

• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Acting
  • Going
  • Actress

• Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • My Own

• In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • Men
  • Ethics

• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Discipline

• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Space

• My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Work
  • Father
  • Black

• My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, and I had some times were I really did not get the opportunity. After Rick Pitino gave up on me my first year, people were like, 'He can't play.' So I had to get over that hump.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Long
  • Comedy

• It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.1

  

  Plautus