Romanus Quotes & Sayings

Was being attacked by a flock of harpies that made the playground scene in The Birds look like a Disney movie. — Lisa Shearin

I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show. — James Lipton

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset.
The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent. — Patricia King

Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted ... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen. — Wilhelm II

One's future, it seemed, could be influenced by how much one could pay one's artist. — Brandon Sanderson

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire. — Pat Morita

Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body. — Peter Dickens

I think you calm crazy people down because you're so eager to please that you never make them feel bad. — Hilary Reyl

Fidelity to the whole of revealed truth is what distinguished good theology from its counterfeits. — Romanus Cessario

It was to tell him that he was engaged to be married to Sibyl Vane. — Oscar Wilde

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before — Murray Walker

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw. — Denise Mina

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same. — Ryan Lilly

Verres had Gavius thrown into prison, tortured and crucified, on the specious grounds that he was a spy for Spartacus. Roman citizenship should have protected him from this degrading punishment. So, as he was flogged, the poor man repeatedly cried out, 'Civis Romanus sum' ('I am a Roman citizen'), but to no avail. Presumably, when they chose to repeat this phrase, both Palmerston and Kennedy (see p. 137) must have forgotten that its most famous ancient use was as the unsuccessful plea of an innocent victim under a sentence of death imposed by a rogue Roman governor. — Mary Beard

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. — Wallace Stevens

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had ... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts. — Chris Gabrieli

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is. — Paul Anka