Illud Quotes

#1. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.]

Plautus

#2. If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

Plautus

#3. The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

Plautus

#4. I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

Lana Del Rey

#5. A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

James Joseph Sylvester

#6. Who says that my dreams have to stay just my dreams?

Ariel

#7. Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.
The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

Kim Harrison

#8. Tis where you write. Tis where you barb, here you are not the pillion but the rider. Welcome to writersmelon. Take a slice in writing!

Writersmelon

#9. Time hurries by, we're here and gone.

Howard Dietz

#10. Be the best of whatever you are.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal

#12. But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

Steve King

#13. Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Robert Gottlieb

#14. Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

John Andreas Widtsoe

#15. One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.

M.J. Rose

#16. The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Samuel Johnson

#17. O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

John Flavel

#18. Go where the growth is.

Robin Lake