Excursus Latin Quotes

#1. I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Adam Sandler

#3. Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any responsibilities. The boomers think that they're 16. Marketers try to keep the charade going. Retirement will look so good, others are going to be jealous.

Jerry Della Femina

#4. He kept me up against the wall, kissing me like he couldn't fight any longer. Like he was me, fighting himself and losing to a fervor that would burn him alive.

Rachel E. Carter

#5. Always Remember: He Can Do! She Can Do! Why Not Me?!

Tae Yun Kim

#6. One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...

Evelyn Waugh

#7. When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. If the Christian life seems boring,
I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!

Edmund Lloyd Fletcher

#9. She was crying when she broke away, and part of her hated that, and part of her felt like it was long overdue.

Marissa Meyer

#10. We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Anatole France

#11. Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be
a man.

Edward Abbey

#12. You're searching ...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.

Robert Frost

#13. Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but ... also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

Dai Sijie

#14. And who shall say how many passions and how many hostile thoughts may live together in the mind of man?

Andre Gide

#15. I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.

Jennifer Grey