Ancient Rome Gladiator Quotes & Sayings

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted. — Seth Rogen

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out] — David Wishart

Being illegitimate is a technicality. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with you. Men use "bastard" as a curse. But to use the term thus is to show that they themselves are less than a proper human being. — Theresa Breslin

Eric Hoffer, studied the reasons why people voluntarily give away responsibility and join mass movements and mobs. One quote he collected came from a young German who explained that he joined the Nazi party to be "free from freedom. — Eric Greitens

Horace smiled. Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring. — N.D. Wilson

Mr.s Kennedy toiled as a domestic servant and used her savings to start a notions and stationery store, which she gradually and skillfully expanded. Bridget's hard work and sacrifice, making her way as a widow in a strange land, established the funds her son P.J. Kennedy used to finance his liquor business. This enterprise was to become the basis of the family's future progress and put Bridget's descendants on a path that dazzled America and forever changed the political scene. — Rashers Tierney

I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you. — Nell Newman

Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do. — Charles Dickens

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are. — Bob Jones, Sr.

The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years. — Scott Michael Foster

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha. — Diane Ladd

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. — Kim Wilde

The birds, on the other hand, were going crazy. They filled the air with chirps and trills and songs. It was probably sparrow for Holy shit, what's going on, we're all gonna die, but it sounded pretty. — James S.A. Corey

I believe in you, love. — Krista Ritchie

For gardens, Granada; for women, Madrid; but for love - your eyes, when they look at me." Lina jotted down these lines in a notebook and learned the song herself. — Simon Morrison

They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope. — Stephen Lloyd Jones