Isocrates Panegyricus Quotes & Sayings

Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action. — Giacomo Casanova

Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear. — Courtney Summers

The world is all outside, it has no inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper ... it's a disaster. — Adrian Tomine

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. — Flannery O'Connor

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime. — Peter Jackson

You need a new strategy for every new situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle. — Philip Sidney

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it. — Rachel Nichols

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime. — Leon Trotsky

This general flattening of objects that rotate is why Earth's pole-to-pole diameter is smaller than its diameter at the equator. Not by much: three-tenths of one percent - about twenty-six miles. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you? — Richard Desmond

As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses. — George Orwell