Favorite Latin Quotes

#1. My strongest memory of our garden is not how it smelled, or even looked, but how it sounded.

Hope Jahren

#2. You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it.

Bill Murray

#3. Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#4. I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Mason Cooley

#5. What the mind can believe, you can achieve.

Lorraine Moller

#6. [P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.

Andrew Solomon

#7. I didn't study acting.

Ray Walston

#8. Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Rick Kennedy

#9. I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy."
"He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy."
Claire closed her eyes. "Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine."
Dead silence.

Rachel Caine

#10. dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day.

Gillian Anderson

#11. I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

Steve Toltz

#12. My country is wherever liberty lives.

Thomas Paine

#13. If you equate going to the bathroom with sex and sexual perversion, you should see a therapist.
The rest of us go in there to take a leak.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller