Graecum Quotes

#1. Graecum est, non legitur," I finished his sentence, humiliated. "It is Greek to me." "Exactly;

Umberto Eco

#2. Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Stephen King

#3. Today's world is too foul a place for fine and noble instincts.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. Eventually, I'll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl - who even when in the presence of company, still feels the loneliness that looms over her heart.

R.J. Gonzales

#5. The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

Dalai Lama

#6. If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

Phil McGraw

#7. Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Phil Daniels

#8. In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run.

Phil Hewitt

#9. The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

Anthony Burgess