Appius Claudius Quotes

#1. The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Jim Rogers

#2. That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behaviour' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation! She fell perhaps in her youth, ruined by her environment. But she loved much and Christ himself forgave the woman 'who loved much.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. I want to entertain.

Jessica Szohr

#4. Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

Liz Phair

#5. Completion does not depend on
material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

Robert Henri

#6. I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Gordon Getty

#7. We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Geraldine Jewsbury

#9. We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus

#10. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

John Green

#11. I have made twice mistake in my whole life; both falling in love with the wrong people.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus

#13. How can I ask anyone to love me when all I do is beg to be left alone?

Fiona Apple

#14. More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Thomas Boswell

#15. I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

Kara Lindsay

#16. But doesn't add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Roy Peter Clark

#17. Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Appius Claudius Caecus

#18. Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

John Kennedy Toole