Epicharmus of Kos Quotes

The best thing a man can have, in my view, is health.

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• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reach
  • Sweetness
  • Peak

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• I've always loved film more than theater.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Film
  • Loved

• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Great
  • Future

• While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Texas

• My nature is happy. And all I can control is my response to input. If you come around me and tell me bad news all the time, I can say, "You know what? I don't want to hear it." If its just gossip, you know, I can choose not to hear it. And that, in effect, can control my mood.

  

  John Travolta
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Happy

• But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Man
  • Sexy
  • Reinvent

• The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Work
  • Job

• We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Home
  • Poverty

• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Youth
  • Side
  • Hopes

• The best thing a man can have, in my view, is health.

  

  Epicharmus of Kos
  • Man
  • Health
  • Best Thing