Acceptissima Quotes

#1. Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Ovid

#2. It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

Regina Spektor

#3. Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

Marilyn Manson

#4. When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

A-Trak

#5. Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

Ed Smith

#6. Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#7. I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

Pam Grier

#8. The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

#9. Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

King Tuff

#11. Clear Sky's shoulders drooped. "I just want us to be together, like we used to be. Fluttering Bird wants it too." Thunder felt a surge of sympathy. Was his father still grieving for the young sister he'd lost? "What if you're wrong?" "I'm not.

Erin Hunter