Aristotle Quotes

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

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• Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Day
  • Laugh

• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Past
  • Myself
  • Worry

• I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Service
  • Public Service

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cooking
  • Own
  • Rice

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• The mind is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Cause
  • Effect

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Business
  • Job
  • Think

• In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • School
  • America

• Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Virtues
  • Call

• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Way
  • Matter

• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Dad

• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Good Things

• As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Play
  • Actor

• Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • World

• A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.

  

  Ann B. Ross
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Encourages

• No one needs anything; they have to want it.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Anything

• In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Together
  • Garden
  • Gentleman

• The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Anything

• A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Anything
  • Gentleman
  • Disturbed