Persius Quotes

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Persius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: 34 - 62

Topics

WorkDayMenTomorrowHeavenFools

If 'Party of Five' hadn't done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if 'Time of Your Life' doesn't do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

LifeBusinessTimeNameYouParty

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

NeverWantedReallyPerformer

In sport, the money goes to the talent; it goes directly to the worker - unlike a bank, which sits in the middle of transactions and whose income bears no relation to any of the services it provides.

John Lanchester

MoneyTalentBankIncomeMiddle

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

PowerFoolCountryVoteInstrument

Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

YouHardNormalPlaying

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

LifeExperienceEnvironmentalEarly

I don't think I would have any problem at all playing in England. I'd love it.

Ronaldo

LoveThinkProblemPlayingWould

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

Mike Nichols

FatherParentYouLoseBackNever

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

DownMeanValleySilicon ValleyJust

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

Mohamed ElBaradei

LiveEnoughLongEgyptSeeWould

I recently signed on with Lancome, and I guess it's any girl's modeling dream come true. Especially being in a beauty ad, more so because I'm French. There are so many girls out there, and I'm just so flattered they picked me. The Tom Ford fragrance ad was the first thing I did. Black Orchid is my winter scent and of course it has a nostalgic feel.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

WinterBeautyGirlMeBlackFeel

I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.

Jonathan Jackson

WorkGiftThinkSomeoneLookActing

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