Mediterranean Basin Quotes

#1. Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#2. I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

John Leguizamo

#3. I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

John Steinbeck

#4. A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

John Taylor

#5. God dwells in you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare ... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

#7. Obviously no one has ever cautioned you against pricking the vanity of proud men or wild animals; neither is completely predictable."
"And which of those categories do you fit into?"
"I'll leave the choice solely to your discretion," he mused and bowed solicitously.

Marsha Canham

#8. Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

Tamsin Egerton

#9. There is tears,there is sweat, there is sacrifiction behind every dream, every vision, every calling so don't give up, hang in there because you are almost there.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

Jean Shepherd

#11. Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

Audrey Hepburn

#12. I had never been enormously tactful; I had no practice dealing with overly friendly boys.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Boris Pasternak

#15. The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.

Mark O'Connell