Cato the Elder Quotes

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

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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

• 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

• I believe every woman should have a flat, a really good wedge, and then the showstopper shoe.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Good
  • Believe

• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Power

• There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Up
  • Art
  • Reality

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Job
  • Song

• Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Running
  • Care

• Even though work stops, expenses run on.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Running
  • Expenses