Aristotle Quotes

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Know
  • Voice

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Power

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Theatre

• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Attempt
  • Human vice
  • Geometrically

• Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Men
  • May
  • Slave

• A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

  

  William Cowper
  • Honesty
  • Lawyer
  • Advantage

• I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Things
  • Obsessed
  • Analogue

• All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Education