Cato the Elder Quotes

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Cato the Elder

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• I believed I was invincible.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believed
  • Invincible

• I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Know
  • Like
  • Strangers

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Advantage
  • Stardom

• Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Nude

• 'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Catholic

• Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Single
  • Fire
  • Sun

• My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life
  • Home
  • Freedom

• If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Taken
  • Fly

• The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Hate

• It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • Power
  • Small
  • Question

• When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.

  

  Lucia Micarelli
  • Time
  • Music

• Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Why
  • Wonder

• All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?

  

  Nancy Burson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

  

  Chrysippus

• The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Worst

• I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Art
  • High
  • Magic

• If the Chinese decide to take leadership in this area and decide to challenge us both commercially as well as perhaps strategically, then the United States has to make a very, very clear decision about whether or not we are going to advance our space technology or whether or not we are going to rest on our laurels of the past.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Technology
  • Leadership
  • Chinese

• Even though work stops, expenses run on.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Running
  • Expenses