Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Marcus Valerius Martial

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• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friend

• It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • You
  • Funny
  • Kid

• 'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movie

• When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Child
  • Start
  • Year

• I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Now

• I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Country
  • America
  • Know

• What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • May
  • Culture

• My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
  • True
  • Mother

• The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Time
  • Different
  • Law

• If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Language
  • Thought
  • Dress

• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • College
  • Grandmother

• Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Character
  • Perfect

• Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long

• My first acting job - I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos - but my first job job was 'ATL' with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn't have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed.

  

  Lauren London
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.

  

  Ann Makosinski
  • Time
  • Good

• I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didn’t want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Opportunity
  • Woman
  • Realize

• I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Disease
  • Dieting

• Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

  

  Blaine Hogan
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Perspiration

• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

  

  Marcus Valerius Martial