Hicetas Quotes & Sayings

Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police. — Peter Selgin

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion ... " — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. — Anne Burack Sayre

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. — Jonah Hill

Love was just a word until someone expressed it with a gesture. — Annie Nicholas

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. — James Callaghan

This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released. — Dada Bhagwan