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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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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The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.
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I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
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Giving people a voice on the one hand, and keeping the community and people safe on the other hand. Our bias tends to be to want to give people a voice and let people express a wide range of opinions. I don’t think that’s a liberal or conservative thing; those are the words in the U.S.
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In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.
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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.
