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

• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Fighting
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Theory
  • Converted
  • Fluent

• Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Mean
  • Doe
  • Karma

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

  

  Plato
  • Geometry
  • Academy
  • Inscribed