Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
-
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
-
There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
-
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
-
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
-
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
-
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
-
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
-
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
-
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
-
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
-
A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
-
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
-
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
-
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
-
'Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.'
-
My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.
-
I have always loved fashion, trends, style, make-up and hair, but yes, some sort of a transformation truly happens when I play a 'bahu'. That's when I have to wear brown lenses to cover my green eyes, colour my hair dark, wear saris, and surprise myself that I can pull this off, too.
-
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
-
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
-
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
