Plato Quotes
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.Plato
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
Edmund Phelps -
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
Jack Ma -
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki -
Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
Patrick deWitt -
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
Damien Chazelle -
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne -
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
John Madden -
You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
W. S. Merwin -
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
Chuck Berry -
We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
Jack Straw
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
Alan Alda -
I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
Al Pacino -
We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.
Lance Henriksen -
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Oscar Wilde -
I apologize for my wild imagination.
Bert Cooper -
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
Alfred de Musset -
I do believe you would have cut the rope.
Courtney Milan -
A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.
Renny Harlin -
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.
Plato