Frontinus Quotes

#1. Inventions have long-since reached their limit
and I see no hope for further developments.
Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

Julius Frontinus

#2. But if I didn't want to be alone, then why didn't I want to be with anyone else?

David Levithan

#3. Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

Bob Dylan

#4. I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

Frontinus

#5. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them Risk control is the most important thing in trading. If you have a losing position that is making you uncomfortable, the solution is very simple: Get out, because you can always get back in.

Paul Tudor Jones

#6. Safe sex, safe music, safe clothing, safe hair spray, safe ozone layer. Too late! Everything that's been achieved in the history of mankind has been achieved by not being safe.

Lemmy Kilmister

#7. In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.

Virginia Woolf

#8. Back from 'Roam if she wants to'!" yelled Renee. She had that condition unique to choreographers and directors, where they can listen to the same line or lyric thousands of times without ever getting it right.

Mara Wilson

#9. Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ...

Frontinus

#10. My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.

Michelle Obama

#11. Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Frontinus

#12. And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Christopher Moore

#13. There is no crueler hells then committee work ...

Robert Jackson Bennett

#14. My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin - the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man ... Where are the life-size - or even pint-size - Benjamin Franklins of today?

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#15. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

#16. The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn't been born yet.

Muhammad Ali

#17. He held the phone up to his ear for a moment more. "Yeah. Me too," he said in a softer voice.

Blue Davis

#18. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

Richard Russo

#19. No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe.

Frontinus

#20. I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable - how we decide what is valuable.

Ai Weiwei

#21. As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.

Marc Guggenheim