Claudius 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. Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Allan Lokos

#3. I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

#4. 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

#5. Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

Christopher Judge

#6. I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he says.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#8. You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word.

James Dashner

#9. She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. It's never too late to act on your dream

Bruce Wilkinson

#11. Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

Jose Andres

#12. Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Brad Mehldau

#13. No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#14. Only God could save me from a certain deadly fate, and so rightfully, he sent the devil to rescue me.

Jennifer Loren

#15. Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

Joe Namath

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

Claudius Aelianus

#17. I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.

Mayer Hawthorne

#18. There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

L'Wren Scott