Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

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• I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • 10 anymore

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Road
  • Jamming

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Media
  • Talk

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Focus
  • Politics
  • Presidential

• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Know
  • Clothes

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Day
  • Brand
  • Queen

• You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Pleasant, the heath when it is green; Also pleasant, the salt marsh for cattle. Pleasant, the time when calves draw milk; Also pleasant, foamy horsemanship.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Green

• And learn the luxury of doing good.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good

• I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time

• In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Power
  • Parents

• A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.

  

  Arthur Bloch
  • Thinking
  • Tired

• Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Why
  • Success

• I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Work
  • Team
  • Rest

• For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Customers
  • Particle

• An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Simple

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• I like meat on my bones.

  

  Jennifer Hudson

• Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

  

  Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Study