Herodotus Quotes
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
-
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
-
I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
-
I'm just basically a workaholic.
-
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
-
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
-
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
-
I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
-
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
-
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
-
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
-
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
-
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
-
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
-
In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
-
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
-
I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
-
I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
-
My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.
-
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
-
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
-
This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
-
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
-
It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
