Aristophanes Quotes
Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)Aristophanes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
Kate Klise -
We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla -
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
Salman Khan -
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
Sam Kean
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
Parker Harris -
I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff -
I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
Jack Warner -
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Harlan Coben -
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison -
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Fiona Shaw -
I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
Imani Hakim -
Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
Jack Layton
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
Ian McDiarmid -
The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar -
No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
R. C. Sproul -
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes