Tarquin The Proud Quotes

#1. What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

Johann Georg Hamann

#2. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Livy

#3. If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

Herbie Hancock

#4. It's a choice to be trapped.

Heather R. Blair

#5. Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I will pass out.
That, right there, is love in action.

Emma Forrest

#6. What the hell's wrong with this house?" I asked it. "Locked rooms, and now rooms without doors at all?" I made to turn

Darcy Coates

#7. It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.

Bertrice Small

#8. It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Annie Proulx

#9. I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

Vin Diesel

#10. Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome.

Johnnie Dent Jr.