Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Why
  • Know
  • Everything

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Earth
  • Content

• You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Cancer

• Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Always
  • Begins

• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Art
  • Skating
  • Figure Skating

• I'm a big fan of films that I grew up on and would watch obsessively, over and over again. If I didn't feel like I got everything on the first watch good, I want to see it again immediately.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• I would never be fearful of any character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Never
  • Would

• I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Pain
  • Cancer
  • Say

• The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Desire

• It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Chicago

• As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • Money
  • Character

• Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Power

• Behind man lies the abyss, nothingness; the Outsider knows this; it is his business to sink claws of iron into life to grasp it tighter than the indifferent bourgeois, to build, to Will, in spite of the abyss.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Business
  • Lies

• It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Earth
  • Race
  • Land

• When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Think
  • Band
  • Style

• I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Good
  • Job

• I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Time
  • Inspired

• Veniano sospirando, e gli occhi bassiParean tener d'ogni baldanza privi.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto