Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
-
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
-
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
-
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
-
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
-
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
-
I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
-
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
-
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
-
'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
-
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
-
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
-
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
-
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
-
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
-
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
-
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
-
With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
-
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
-
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
-
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.
-
I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.
-
The past, as you suggest, is absolutely present at all times and the present is born from the past. I wouldn't want to suggest that the past determines the present.
-
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
