Cassiodorus Quotes

For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.

Cassiodorus

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Your

• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Present

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Happy
  • Father

• What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Art
  • Me

• Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Church
  • Founders

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Lies
  • Public
  • Spoken

• 'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Small
  • Mean
  • Talk

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Travel

• It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

  

  Bea Arthur

• Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

  

  Bud Abbott

• The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

  

  Jason Williams
  • Good
  • Bad

• I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

  

  Charlie Puth

• I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

  

  Paula Fox
  • Music

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Stupid

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Distance

• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.

  

  Cassiodorus
  • School
  • Learning
  • Foundation