Caius Ligarius Quotes & Sayings

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking ... a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions. — Don DeLillo

London is my home ... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. — Jude Law

And yet, from time to time, beneath this thick layer of amnesia, you can certainly sense something, an echo, distant, muted, but of what, precisely, it is impossible to say. Like finding yourself on the edge of a magnetic field, with no pendulum to pick up the radiation. — Patrick Modiano

On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend. — Thucydides

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. — Oscar Arias

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil — Ernest Hemingway,

I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film. — Tom Lister Jr.

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could. — Mark Twain

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game. — Rickey Henderson