Quintian Quotes

#1. Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.

Pliny The Elder

#2. Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

Marc Almond

#3. God, we are so cool. And by cool, I mean retarded.

John Green

#4. When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

Timothy West

#5. George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

John Osborne

#6. Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

Garrison Keillor

#7. Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Malcolm X

#8. Maybe that's what love is - sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

Katherine Reay

#9. Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Laura Riding

#10. I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

Glenn Tipton

#11. As long as you're still walking with the demons of hell! You'll never have the time to slow down to see the angels of heaven behind you.

Jerome D. Williams