Plato Quotes
For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.Plato
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
Carles Puigdemont -
The world is always in movement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
Larry David -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
Mahesh Babu -
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. Howe -
My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
Mae Jemison -
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
Gabriel Iglesias
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
Patrick White -
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
J. D. Vance -
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Edmund White -
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne -
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
Damian Lewis -
When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
Dan Pink
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
Ian Anthony Dale -
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Arthur Hiller -
I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.
Jason Bateman -
At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
Umberto Eco -
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Plato -
For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
Plato