Herodotus Quotes

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 484 BC - 425 BC

Topics

TimeRestThings HappenRight Time

I really loved being able to perform my songs and sing them myself.

Joe Bonamassa

MyselfLovedBeingSingAbleSongs

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

Joel Salatin

FoodMoreSystemTransparentRaw

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

MusicI AmImpossibleFindDown

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am in my composing mode, I go into my studio and turn that part of my brain on like a faucet. And when I finish, I turn it off. But with songwriting, that process is much more elusive.

Michael Bacon

I AmBrainProcessGoSongwriting

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

Stephen Hopkins

MoreSoundRareLastMinutesThan

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

Toni Collette

LifeGreatMyselfHatePeopleYou

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

Mike D

MusicProductsUsedGetCommercial

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Louis Farrakhan

WordsPurposeMeBelieveNewIslam

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Joyce Carol Oates

ChallengeWorldEmotionalSenseOur

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

ArtRichThinkingBetterYouCraft

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

ExperienceLearnUniqueOthersHuman

It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Brian Baumgartner

BaseballSweetLookingGameTough

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