Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
Petrarch
Quotes to Explore
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
Rachel McAdams
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
A. R. Rahman
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
Sam Neill
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
Ralph Stanley
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.
Lane Kirkland
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
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In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
Jeff Buckley
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A man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries.
William James
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
Petrarch
