Thofe Quotes & Sayings

Yet, fince o-oods are twofold, and each kind benefits thofe by whom it is received, hence the Homeric poetry diftributes them into twofold coordinations, and, indicating their difference with refpecl to each other, denominates the one as abfolutely good, but places the other feparate, as contrary to good. — Anonymous

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. — Wentworth Miller

Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'. — Geoff Dyer

Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity - shines most brightly. On our deathbeds, none of us will speak of the jobs we've held or the stuff we've acquired in our lifetimes; here bull markets and Nielsen ratings are irrelevant. A life-threatening illness jettisons pretension in no time flat. Death is the great equalizer. Death dares us to define what really matters. — Nancy Cobb

I always looked ahead. — Chris Evert

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy. — Patrick Dempsey

People who expect the world to end very soon, and are planning on being raptured out of it, are not likely to be concerned about dominion over the earth, nor the application of God's law to the whole of life. Moreover, if such people believe, as they do, that Satan rules the world, they will regard their responsibilities to the world as negligible, and the world as something to escape from. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Mirabelle knows, and she lets this be unspoken, that all free things require conversation. Sitting in a darkened movie theatre requires absolutely no conversation at all, whereas a free date, like a walk down Hollywood Boulevard in the busy evening, requires comments, chatter, observations, and with luck, wit. She worries that since they have only exchanged perhaps two dozen words between them, these free dates will be horrible. — Steve Martin