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 -
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton -
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 -
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 -
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy -
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
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon Pike -
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes -
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 -
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe -
'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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
Chiang Kai-shek
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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 -
I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.
Liz Phair -
'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.
Joe R. Lansdale -
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
Joan Didion -
I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
Maxine Peake -
For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
Cassiodorus