Ludovico Ariosto Quotes

Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.

Ludovico Ariosto

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• I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Doing
  • Problems
  • Working

• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • Wanna
  • Kurt Cobain

• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Hand
  • Trouble
  • Egg

• Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • God
  • Man
  • Free

• Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Everything
  • Connected

• I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Think
  • Problems

• People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

  

  Frances Burney
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.

  

  Sallust
  • Ego

• Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

  

  Ben Jonson

• Wear your love like heaven.

  

  Donovan
  • Heaven

• I don’t work with people. I don’t recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I’ve done that at all levels from - from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

  

  Mario Batali
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Food

• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Greatness
  • Mediocrity
  • Imitation

• I am ashamed of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens...You & I may be thankful to have lived in happier times – you more than I, because you have no children.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • May
  • Thankful

• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Money
  • Heaven
  • Suffering

• Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto