Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua -
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup -
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
O. Henry -
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
K. A. Applegate -
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali -
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
Sam Palladio -
It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
Paloma Elsesser -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
Dan Gilbert -
I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
Karl Schroeder -
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes -
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss -
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
Kaki King
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Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.
Chris Hadfield -
I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.
Lucas Hedges -
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten.
Claude C. Hopkins -
The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
Zoe Sugg -
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
C. S. Lewis -
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Plato