Caeca Quotes & Sayings

By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture. — Jean Craighead George

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them. — Charlie Hunnam

I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense. — Allen Ginsberg

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius

In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers. — Emily Rodda

Come here." He gestures towards the door.
Would you get a load of this character?
Come here, he says, like I'll just do it.
I do. — A. Zavarelli

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

I'm in a place where the audience doesn't have control over my love for the music. In the past I was waiting on the reaction of the fans to tell me whether or not I had a great record based on how they'd respond. — Andrew Ripp

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched. — Michael Grant

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. — Douglas Adams

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. — Ryan Holiday

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will. — Orrin Woodward