Accepi Quotes

#1. I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

Plautus

#2. Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image.

Martina Hingis

#3. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.

Trevor Noah

#4. She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.

Harper Lee

#5. I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

James Thurber

#6. Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.

Mark Boal

#7. The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

Richard E. Pattis

#8. Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

#9. Rima: "Hey Shiki, won't you be my husband?"

Shiki: "sure."

Rima: "How rash..."

Shiki: "Ehh? Why...? It means that you will be my friend and companion forever. What is there to ponder?

Matsuri Hino

#10. In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

Boy George

#11. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.

Fennel Hudson

#12. Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

Annie Leibovitz

#13. Life is what you make it and faith is what brings it to reality. -CF

Carline Francois

#14. What is it? A prize or something?
No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

Melina Marchetta