Affectata Quotes

#1. Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

Greg Bear

#2. Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

Tony Blair

#3. But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

Louis Farrakhan

#4. Sun and snow is an Angel's glow, but storm and rain? That's a Demon's bane.

S.R. Crawford

#5. Reproach is infinite, and knows no end
So voluble a weapon is the tongue;
Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail
For every man has equal strength to rail.

Homer

#6. What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Jason Katims

#7. My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

Conor Oberst

#8. If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

W.C. Fields

#10. Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Berthold Auerbach

#11. I've made my peace. He will always be part of me. I don't need to watch him die. I am just glad I was able to watch him live.

Ralph Webster

#12. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.

Timothy Ferriss

#13. There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

Richard K. Morgan

#14. You need me. You won't stay away and you won't let me go because, baby, you can't breathe without me.

Kristen Ashley

#15. A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

Lord Acton