Top 16 Dormitat Quotes
#1. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
Horace
#2. Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
Roy H. Williams
#3. He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...
Walter Pater
#4. The moon was wide - too wide and too close. Mentally, Simon told the moon to stop being so close and bright and that it should just generally shut up with the mooniness.
Cassandra Clare
#6. And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy.
L. Frank Baum
#7. A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
Livy
#8. The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
Snoop Dogg
#9. Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
Ann Patchett
#10. Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
Peter V. Brett
#11. My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
Conrad Hall
#12. I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
Christian Louboutin
#13. One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective.
Allen Iverson
#14. Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.
Elliott Smith
#15. The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#16. We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people,
Gretchen Rubin
