Arbitratu Quotes

#1. Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Plautus

#2. I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

Robert Morse

#3. A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

Robert Genn

#4. Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

J.K. Rowling

#5. We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

Ingvar Kamprad

#6. In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

#7. Oh, please, I never get sick. I've had my flu shot." I roll my eyes and snort, which really isn't advisable with a stuffed nose. "And have the immune system of a god," he adds.

Kristen Callihan

#8. If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved ... or star in a movie.

LeBron James

#9. The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

William Goldman

#10. You're walking around as though everyone is farting roses and pissing champagne. What's up?

Samantha Young

#11. And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

Tom Wolfe

#12. At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Nick Cave

#13. And you see his blue eyes, the blue eyes of all the family
whom you used to know, grow narrow and glisten,
his hand types out the details
and he wants them all
but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best.

Adrienne Rich

#14. Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

Ira Glass

#15. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#16. Heavy use of a special hypoallergenic organic air freshener is encouraged at Post-Human Services, because the scent of immortality is complex.

Gary Shteyngart