Herodotus Quotes

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Herodotus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodFreedomAloneEqualitySpeech

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Joey Skaggs

ServiceStoryAnythingSuccessful

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Jenifer Lewis

LifeMyselfHumorWritingSaying

I owe Mr. Bergman so much.

Max von Sydow

OweMuchMrBergman

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

John Mackey

LeadershipIntelligencePeopleThink

The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.

Anand Mahindra

NicheLongerTerm

It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.

Sophia Amoruso

BeautyLivePeopleYouWantQuick

I started directing videos at the same time that Michel Gondry was starting to direct videos, and I watched what he'd do. They all seemed to be pushing some new visual effects idea, but never just for spectacle. They all captured a feeling.

Spike Jonze

TimeFeelingNewNeverStarting

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

Sting

BestWorldYouDownStillAround

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Tom Stoppard

LifeLiveTruthEyeBlurYou

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Tom Drury

CharacterBestBuildingSmallYou

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

WriteNeedAlwaysOutSomething

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

Christopher Priest

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