Ovid Quotes

Ego pulveris haustiostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis,tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi;excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Intelligent
  • Try

• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Life
  • Learn
  • My Life

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Business
  • Changes

• Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Like
  • Hollywood

• I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Politics

• I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Fair

• It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Cool

• The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Problems
  • Environmental

• The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Present

• 'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Sorry
  • Teen

• In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • May

• Ego pulveris haustiostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis,tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi;excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.

  

  Ovid
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