Socrates Quotes

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

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• I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hand

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Famous

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Singer

• I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

  

  Ainsley Earhardt
  • Sound
  • Act
  • Self-Righteous

• The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Why
  • Day

• I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Guy

• By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

  

  Socrates
  • Things
  • Beauty
  • Means