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

• Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mature

• Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Attention

• We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Picture
  • Fly

• You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Eye
  • Clouds
  • Speed

• Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

  

  Carol Kent
  • Hope
  • Choices
  • Journey

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

  

  Plautus