Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

  Larry David
  • American
  • Food
  • Lunch

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • First
  • Everyone

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • World
  • Strong
  • Humility

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Look
  • Walk
  • View

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Jesus

• You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guy
  • You
  • Kind

• I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Serious

• My Brother went to collegeTo become a doctorAnd if he studies hard enoughHe'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Brother

• I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Believe
  • Religious

• People have to respect intellectual property.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People
  • Respect

• Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Past
  • Band

• I love Humphrey Jennings. People ask me who my favorite documentary maker is, and he's certainly in the top three.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People

• I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Planets

• When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Library

• Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

  

  Catullus
  • Laughter
  • Silly