Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
-
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
-
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
-
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
-
Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
-
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
-
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
-
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
-
I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
-
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
-
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
-
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
-
We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
-
I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
-
I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.
-
I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.
-
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
-
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
-
The eating of meat without doubt focuses the physical mechanism closely to the physical system. There is nothing wrong with this. If you are trying to develop inner abilities however, and if you wish to allow yourself a mobility of focus, then moderation in this respect must be used.
-
Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
-
Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.
-
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.
-
Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
-
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
