Aelianus Quotes

#1. Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. - Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus

Peter Godfrey-Smith

#2. You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces

Groucho Marx

#3. My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

Mitch Pileggi

#4. But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

Nigella Lawson

#5. Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

Claudius Aelianus

#6. We must follow, not force Providence.

William Shakespeare

#7. In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

Michel Foucault

#8. As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

Elle Varner

#9. I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

Corey Taylor

#10. I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

Lindsay Lohan

#11. In Egypt, the cats ... afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

Claudius Aelianus

#12. I do so love a nicely bandied word.

George R R Martin