Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Marcus Valerius Martial

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Sick
  • Connections
  • Electricity

• Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Me
  • Friend

• The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • History
  • Accept
  • Push

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Book
  • Attention
  • Road

• My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Dad
  • More

• If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • House
  • Nice

• Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Done
  • Calm

• Now to the great artist, everything in nature has character.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Great
  • Character
  • Nature

• Go ahead, marry her. Don't marry her, man. How do you know where she's been? Huh! How do you know she's not the biggest fucking whore to ever walk this fucking town, man? I went with this one girl, she was such a fucking tramp, I had to double park my dick on her ass and wait an hour to get in. It's unfuckingbelievable, I'm telling ya.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • She
  • Girl

• We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.

  

  Laurel Clark

• Business: Busyness.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Business

• I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Working
  • Talking
  • Typewriter

• College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • College
  • Softball

• Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing.

  

  Democritus
  • Money
  • Value

• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

  

  Dee Hock

• A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

  

  Marcus Valerius Martial