Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Good
  • Love
  • Study

• A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Man

• I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • High
  • Support
  • End

• Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Book
  • Powerful

• One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Light
  • Moving
  • Study

• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Book
  • Study
  • Thought

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• As quoted in 'Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback' by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Sweet
  • Comeback

• And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hayGives it a sweet and wholesome odour.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Sweet

• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Study
  • Chess

• Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness... When Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good... You should prefer old Women to young ones.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • Women
  • Marriage

• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Forever

• It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Study
  • Manners
  • Delicate

• We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Study

• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Failure
  • Learn
  • Crime

• Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

  

  Cato the Younger
  • Study
  • Sweet
  • Roots