Speculatores Quotes

#1. The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

Marcus Aurelius

#3. In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

Ellen Dissanayake

#4. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Catherine The Great

#5. People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

Laura Schlessinger

#6. This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.

Marcel Desailly

#7. Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

Beau Bridges

#8. Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#9. And we must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

Giacomo Balla

#10. Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Todd Solondz

#11. The artist has to take risks.

Irving Stone

#12. In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.

Bryant McGill

#13. I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

Barbara Mandrell

#14. Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Ben Lerner

#15. Blow it Chix. Blow that door off it's damn hinges."
"Yessir. Off it's damn hinges. That's a roger.

Eoin Colfer

#16. What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet?
It would be appropriate.
When in Rome; burn it.

Iain M. Banks