Athenaeus Quotes
Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Laini Taylor
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
Nadia Comaneci
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Maira Kalman
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Nawal El Saadawi
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
Vaclav Havel
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Fernando Pessoa
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
Edgar Degas
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
Jacob Bronowski
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
Magnus Carlsen
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope
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A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.
Kevin Smith
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky
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Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
CeeLo Green
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I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn't want to look like Arnold Schwartzenegger or Lou Ferrigno.
Mark McGwire
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
Seneca the Younger
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Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the 'Nautilus' of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.
Athenaeus