Lucan Quotes

Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

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• I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Man

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Think

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Myself
  • Difficult
  • Fame

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • American
  • Law
  • Professional

• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Fan
  • Wood
  • Pulp

• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • You
  • Down
  • Cricket

• In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Change
  • Opinion
  • Stupid

• I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Same

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• This is about getting into a corporation, screwing it up, putting in poison pills so your competitor can’t swallow it…. Very intricate game played in the 1980’s…. Mike Milken did it with junks bonds, Drexel Burnham.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Up
  • Game

• Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Stop

• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  

  Aristotle
  • War
  • Cowardice
  • Tyrant

• You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • People
  • Great

• As parents, it is our responsibility to show by example and educate our children on the importance of caring for our planet.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• I have a very, very good memory, and I always remember the people who have done right by me and the people who have done wrong by me.

  

  Kevin Love
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

  

  Lucan