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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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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.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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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.
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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.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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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.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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.
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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.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.
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Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.
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Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
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I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.
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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.
