Ovid Quotes

Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

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• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Political
  • You
  • Car

• Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Need

• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Government
  • Loyal
  • Forum

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Choose
  • Creation
  • Act

• I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Time
  • Working
  • Year

• When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Issues
  • Had
  • Teens

• In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

  

  Dane Cook
  • School
  • Home
  • Pretty

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Women
  • Dance
  • Artists

• The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Die

• Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Growing

• They threw me out the Ramada Inn, I said: 'It wasn't me, I got a twin! Oh my god it's you, not again!'

  

  Eminem
  • God
  • Twin

• A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Song
  • Comforting

• I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

  

  Howard Jacobson

• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • True

• When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Learning
  • Singing

• If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

  

  David Gemmell

• He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Imagination
  • Sensible
  • Sparkle

• I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.

  

  Susan Kohner
  • Actor
  • Married
  • Childishness

• Ut ameris, amabilis esto.

  

  Ovid