Tacitus Quotes

Everything unknown is magnified.

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl
  • Just
  • Jennifer

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Working

• When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Boat
  • Surfing
  • Sailing

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Ideas

• If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Know
  • More

• All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Meditation
  • Abuse

• It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Bird

• I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Long
  • True
  • Care

• Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Travel
  • Possible

• Their thinking has a different aim: To create out of their work symbols for their own time, symbols that belong on the altars of a future spiritual religion, symbols behind which the technical heritage cannot be seen. Scorn and stupidity will be like roses in their path.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Everything unknown is magnified.

  

  Tacitus
  • Unknown
  • Magnified