Totus Quotes

#1. Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus?
(When will all the rhetorical questions end?)

Mike Thomas

#2. Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.)
[Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]

William Shakespeare

#3. Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Hannah Webster Foster

#4. Teach me, Lord Jesus,... not to be hungering for the 'strange and peculiar' when the common, ordinary, and regular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.

Jim Eliot

#5. I have ... a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

Sterling K. Brown

#6. I smiled,
I waited,
I was circumspect;
O never, never, never write that I
missed life or loving.

Hilda Doolittle

#7. Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it," said the kzin. "If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it." "Nessus?

Larry Niven

#9. The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.

Brian Koppelman

#10. When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

Vernon Howard

#12. Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

Brian Tracy

#13. Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Marcus Thomas

#14. Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.

Karen Joy Fowler

#15. In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Al Sharpton

#16. Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

Michael Eisner

#17. I always want to design a frame that's open to everyone. I don't see art as a secret code.

Ai Weiwei