Plaudite Amici Quotes

#1. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed]

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#2. Creating "ABC" priority codes and daily "to-do" lists were key techniques developed to help people sort through their choices in some meaningful way.

David Allen

#3. All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

Nina Bawden

#4. No, no, I don't want that."
"I didn't ask.

Cherise Sinclair

#5. I am the most loyal player money can buy.

Don Sutton

#6. What takes place in me stays there.

Frank Bidart

#7. He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

Tony Kornheiser

#8. We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

Gabrielle Giffords

#9. We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

Adi Godrej

#10. She felt as if, while working and sleeping and working and sleeping, she'd aged so rapidly that she'd passed Emile and caught up with her parents.

Jonathan Franzen

#11. He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ...

Louis L'Amour

#12. The moon is more interesting than the unchanging sun. That is surely why it is used in poetry and the sun is not - unless one talks of dawn or dusk, when the sun briefly hovers on the edge of day.

Liza Dalby

#13. You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road ... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?

Sophie Kinsella