Lucan Quotes
Ecce parens verus patriae.
Lucan
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
Nancy Gibbs
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine Albright
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
Eddie Izzard
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
Nancy Gibbs
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Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. … That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
Charles de Lint
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What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
Gene Wilder
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
Oscar Wilde
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Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
Aleksey Tolstoy
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Ecce parens verus patriae.
Lucan
