Ovid Quotes

Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Nature

• There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Never
  • Belief

• I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Level
  • Waste

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Me

• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Faith

• Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion
  • Designer

• Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Women
  • Story
  • Young

• With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Audience
  • Connection

• I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Years
  • Right
  • Three

• Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Strong
  • Desire

• My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Up
  • Good
  • Age

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Expectations

• I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

  

  J. C. R. Licklider
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Today

• When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Ask
  • Remembered

• I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Problems

• Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.

  

  Ovid