Appius Way Quotes & Sayings

The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, Every man is the architect of his own fortune. — Jim Rogers

Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice.
'Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie! — Charlaine Harris

Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must now learn to do with the stormy weather I've been passing through: turn it into beauty, turn it into art, so new life can germinate and bloom.
One example of a creative artist who does this is my friend Jane Yolen, who wrote her exquisite book of poems The Radiation Sonnets while her husband was undergoing treatment for the cancer that would eventually claim his life. This is what all artists must do: take whatever life gives us and "alchemize" it into our art (either directly and autobiographically, as in Jane's book, or indirectly; whatever approach works best), turning darkness into light, spinning straw into gold, transforming pain and hardship into what J.R.R. Tolkien called 'a miraculous grace. — Terri Windling

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus

On a sigh he brought up his hand and used one long finger to brush a dark curl away from my face. With the saddest look in his eyes, he said, "A girl needs to be held right now, and comforted, and told that everything is going to be okay. I'm sorry I can't do that for you. I don't have any of that left."
"I have a little," I said, "and I'll lend it to you. — Jennifer Echols

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity? — F Scott Fitzgerald

Her who whose beauty is not like earthly beauty, dangerous to look upon, but like the morning star which is its emblem, bright and musical. — James Joyce

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve. — Juanita M. Kreps

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus

CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools. — Ben Jonson

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you. — Charlaine Harris

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. — Richard Bach

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate. — Sallust

Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!'
- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris — Charlaine Harris

Love is not for sale but you can also get a copy by paying. — M.F. Moonzajer

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?"
"It's like being on vactaion. all of the time. — Gerard Way