Excerpta Latina Quotes & Sayings

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving. — Billy Graham

I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40. — Kate Moss

Just 'cause I'm a vampire, doesn't mean I'm into the Goth scene."
"Yeah. I suppose that makes sense," I reason. "Like why go around dressing in black and wishing you were dead, when technically you already are."
He grins. "Exactly. — Mari Mancusi

Hope is like a balloon, always just a breath away from being deflated — Jodi Picoult

I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Winston stopped reading for a moment. Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. The blissful feeling of being alone with the forbidden book, in a room with no telescreen, had not worn off. Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The — George Orwell

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do. — Wilbur Ross

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard. — Chris Matthews

One never really knew just how taxing pain was till one was free of it and could feel the difference. — Kristen Britain

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day. — Ovid

A fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley