Lucretius Quotes

Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Work
  • Day
  • Dog

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Diet
  • Fish

• My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Man
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Want
  • Gang

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Child
  • Wanted
  • Surgeon

• Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Change
  • Forever

• Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Universal

• Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Him
  • Seriously

• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Marketing
  • Hear
  • Jam

• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Black
  • Woman

• The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Writing
  • Environment
  • Lyrics

• Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must first politically survive in order to later address the hard problems and sacrifices. Of course, they usually don't ever actually get around to addressing the fundamental problems later, either because they don't make it through the initial crisis or because, even later, they are not willing to risk sacrificing their own position or "career" with needed measures that usually require tough sacrifices by the population.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Problems
  • Crisis
  • Sacrifices

• With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Family
  • American
  • Development

• We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, 'You know what? I know my dad's songs...'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Dad

• Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.

  

  Lucretius