Giambattista Vico Quotes

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: June 23, 1668 - January 23, 1744

Topics

NatureFirstDelicateFinallyThen

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

Jennifer Coolidge

FunnyWomenUglyFaceWeirdComedy

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.

Jennifer Lee

PeopleThinkCopyNewspaperNever

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

John Sculley

TodayManMoonValleySilicon Valley

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

LeadershipGreatPerspectivePast

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

Tony Abbott

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I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show.

Tom Petty

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I grew up without any security - I obviously had lots of security because I have two parents who had a good marriage and stayed together, and we had a creative household full of ideas, but there was never any financial security. So I knew I could have a good life without that.

Rosamund Pike

LifeGoodMarriageTogetherCreative

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

Martin Yan

YouVegetablesWillTouchNeverEat

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

Martina Hingis

WomenThinkBetterToo MuchThree

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

Ariel Sharon

OptimismForwardLongLookReady

I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn't do well, like 'Byomkesh.'

Sushant Singh Rajput

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With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.

Sherrod Brown

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