Illis Quotes

#1. Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Ovid

#2. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," Douglas commented. Times change, and we change with them.

S.C. Gwynne

#3. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

Juvenal

#4. It's easier to break something than create it.

Marie Rutkoski

#5. We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Ali Smith

#6. If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

Paul Valery

#7. Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

Shane West

#8. The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cynthia Ozick