Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
  • Language
  • Jazz

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People

• Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Life
  • Important
  • Strong

• Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • America
  • Free

• So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Writing
  • Help
  • Fall

• Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Food

• I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Listening

• I'm not an oddball.

  

  Lee Remick

• I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Friend
  • Bird

• Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

  

  Dinsha Patel
  • Today

• My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

  

  Bryan Callen
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Green

• Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Culture

• The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

  

  Kelly Hu
  • Men
  • Book
  • Serious

• Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Reality
  • Dark
  • Existence

• Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Religion
  • Tea

• To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

  

  Catullus
  • Book