Plato Quotes

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Pride
  • Direction

• Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Real
  • Fun

• I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Awards
  • Retired
  • Academy

• My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Father
  • Actor
  • Everything

• Si nec blanda satis, nec erit tibi comis amanti,Perfer et obdura: postmodo mitis erit.Flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus:Frangis, si vires experiere tuas.Obsequio tranantur aquae: nec vincere possisFlumina, si contra, quam rapit unda, nates.

  

  Ovid

• Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Women
  • Attention

• I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Curiosity
  • Motivated

• I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

  

  David McCallum
  • Life
  • Hand

• I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Up
  • Character
  • Friends

• It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Up

• I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • People
  • Up
  • Makeup

• Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.

  

  James Northcote
  • Running
  • Fashion

• I think that we = Morris Louis and Noland realized that you didn't have to assert yourself as a personality in order to be personally expressive. We felt that we could deal solely with aesthetic issues, with the meaning of abstraction, without sacrificing individuality – or quality.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Quality
  • Personality
  • Aesthetic

• I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Done
  • Art
  • American

• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Arts
  • Degrees
  • Academy

• A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Criticism
  • Morality
  • Geometry

• Once, I went to the roof of a project and saw a hawk perched on the rail; always, you see the city in the near distance, its towers and spires studded with lights, both stately and slapdash, like the crazy geometry of rock crystal. There were many days when you felt sorry for people who worked inside.

  

  Edward Conlon
  • Distance
  • Sorry
  • Project

• One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

  

  Amy Vanderbilt
  • World
  • Home
  • Face

• I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

  

  George Coyne
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, Oh, that guy. I want people to start saying, Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Roles
  • Brett Gelman movie

• Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

  

  Plato
  • Geometry
  • Academy
  • Inscribed