Ignes Quotes

#1. And yet more bright
Shines out the Julian star,
As moon outglows each lesser light.
[Lat., Micat inter omnes
Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes
Luna minores.]

Horace

#2. The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. What makes people laugh? ... It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

Erma Bombeck

#4. To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#5. When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Jim Bishop

#6. Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it. WILHELM REICH

Wilhelm Reich

#7. The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

Abby Sunderland

#8. I would've loved to return to me home of Ireland, but Joshua never made the bloody pikes he was flogged for.

Sharon Robards

#9. I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.

Brad Katsuyama

#10. Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.

Johnny Mercer

#11. You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Pat Morita

#12. That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

Nina Arianda

#14. McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.

Ken Kesey

#15. One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.

Cathy Guisewite

#16. If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

Marsden Wagner

#17. I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

Dean Wareham