Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

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• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Career
  • Parents

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Stars
  • Content

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Voice

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Women
  • Losing
  • Fault

• Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Time
  • Today
  • Moving

• I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Ideas

• But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

  

  Emily Maguire
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Joy

• The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

  

  Mark Ryan Adam and the Ants
  • Live
  • Real
  • Reality

• Reality is always the foe of famous names.

  

  Petrarch
  • Reality
  • Names
  • Foe