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

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• 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'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• 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

• It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Habit

• It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Together

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

  

  Plautus