Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

  

  Iain Banks
  • School
  • Remember
  • Water

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Goodness
  • Root

• The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Film
  • First
  • Two

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  

  Lane Evans
  • World
  • Live
  • Brave

• Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Education
  • Military

• But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Success

• You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Believe

• It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.

  

  David Droga
  • World
  • Trying

• I get one shot at life, and I can say that I've lived a crazy one, and I've pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I'm super proud of that.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Crazy

• I'm definitely not a song-and-dance guy, and if you've ever heard me sing, you would understand that, 'No, maybe that's not your thing.'

  

  Jason Priestley
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Dance

• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Words

• If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

  

  Jimmy Doolittle
  • Up

• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Dark

• This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature
  • Bird

• Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

  

  Catullus
  • Bird
  • Sparrows
  • Birdsong