Pliny the Younger
Related There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you of... ALAN SMITH BRENDA UELAND If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr... JENEANE SESSUM I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. MEG ROSOFF There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write. ANDREA BARRETT SOURCE UNKNOWN Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If yo... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro... JAMES BAY CHARLES BUKOWSKI Whether or not you write well, write bravely BILL STOUT If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will ma... ALAN GARNER There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. SINEAD O'CONNOR There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. SINEAD O'CONNOR This week or last week, I don't really care about it anymore. I write myself this later, I tell myse... SARA QUIN KELSEA BALLERINI Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being pub... CHARLES KEATING ERNEST HEMINGWAY BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ JACKIE COLLINS JACKIE COLLINS HARUKI MURAKAMI NEIL PEART Your wealth is nothing,if your character is nothing to write home about. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) GAUTAM GAMBHIR If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not f... CALVIN TRILLIN MADELEINE L'ENGLE JULIA GLASS STEPHEN KING ANDRé GIDE Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being... CHARLES KEATING A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh... TEA OBREHT Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge ... SARAH KEDDAR There are only two things needed to maintain celebrity: Being clever enough to ensure that nothing t... COLIN GORMAN CHARLES CALEB COLTON I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connec... DANNEL MALLOY KRISTIN GORE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my re... RUSSELL FREEDMAN You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing BRANDON REECE TAYLOR Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents ... MARK O'DONNELL JACK WHITE JERRY SPINELLI Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u... A.J. CHILSON Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to wri... EDWARD ST AUBYN JAMES GUNN CHANNING TATUM I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d... JOY FIELDING GEORGE HARRISON The results are nothing to write home about, ... disappointment. CRAIG MOFFETT I would rather not know how to write and have something to say than know how to write and have nothi... ENRIQUE TESSIERI Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE ROBERT WAGNER LAINI TAYLOR JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER SHERWIN B. NULAND You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry. GRAHAM KENNEDY DORIS LESSING AKHIL SHARMA ROBERT WAGNER HAYLEY WILLIAMS ERNEST HEMINGWAY You grab one or two cookies without even thinking about it. Or if you have something bad in the morn... ALANA SHRIVER The great thing about oak is that it looks old. It is beautifully solid and well made. There is some... JOHN ANDREWS ROLAND BARTHES There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices. TIM HEIDECKER I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move... JAMES E. GUNN Don't let all the screaming girls make you believe you're God...don't let all the jealous guys and t... JORDAN KNIGHT Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... TERRY BROOKS PETER DRUCKER PETER DRUCKER PETER F. DRUCKER GROUCHO MARX MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wag... WAITE HOYT JAIME LERNER Obviously, Miami is a different way of life than New York. My grittier street songs are definitely i... JOE CARTAGENA OSCAR WILDE PHILIP PULLMAN So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well. BILLY SHERWOOD I write because there is a madness within me to express my thoughts in words. I write because I feel... AVIJEET DAS KRISTIN ARMSTRONG I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for ... VIJENDER SINGH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. KATE DICAMILLO ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you ha... BOBBY SMITH ANDY WARHOL ALEX TURNER I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subserv... VALERIE JUNE CHARLES BUKOWSKI The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just an... JULIAN GREEN If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. BILLY JOEL "THE LONGEST TIME" BILLY JOEL JEFF BUCKLEY MAYA ANGELOU ROB LOWE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE CRAIG FERGUSON You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac... MARY ROACH
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you refuse a request, all former fav... PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Joking set aside.
[Lat., Omissis jocis.] PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the
words which we hear, for though w... PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of
our feelings.
[Lat., Plerumque do... PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] PLINY THE YOUNGER (CAIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS) And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most
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To be well shaken. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I
had a soul above buttons. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") 'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") All argument will vanish before one touch of nature. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"), GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. WILLIAM PITT ("THE YOUNGER") Over her hung a canopy of state,
Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,
But of a substance,... GILES FLETCHER ("THE YOUNGER") Married in haste we may repent at leisure. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" When anger rises, think of the consequences. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years aft... GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the
dinner. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to
venture to instruct, even our fri... GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her
cradle, and discards her nurse. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" On their own merits modest men are dumb. GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER" When the hollow drum has beat to bed
And the little fifer hangs his head,
When all is mute the... GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") On their own merits modest men are dumb. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig:
"What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig.... GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Praise the bridge that carried you over. GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") I marched the lobby, twirled my stick,
. . . .
The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick." GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") But when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
- George Colman ("The ... GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") The immortal swan that did her life deplore. GILES FLETCHER ("THE YOUNGER") Oh, my country! how I leave my country! WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six! GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Lord help you! Tell 'em Queen Anne's dead. GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Mum's the word. GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that... WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behin... WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Where law ends, tyranny begins WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is ... WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Roll up that map: it will not be wanted these ten years. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one ev... EVELLE YOUNGER They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens... COLE YOUNGER Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the c... COLE YOUNGER I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary o... COLE YOUNGER They want someone to take care of it for them. So they're just jumping on this opportunity, this bul... BEN YOUNGER They're preying on the bullish market because they know people want to get invested, BEN YOUNGER I love it. I'm actually getting a little bit too caught up. I've got to cool it a little, because I'... BEN YOUNGER I love it, BEN YOUNGER [As in the movie, the interview was like a Fascist Youth rally,] half an hour of this recruiting off... BEN YOUNGER There was no foresight on my part. But if you had walked in on that day, you would have known immedi... BEN YOUNGER It's pretty timely, ... Not that I had the foresight. I just -- I found a new world, and I figured I... BEN YOUNGER Don't be blindfolded by wins or losses. Treat them equally, but draw motivation from both. BRANDON YOUNGER I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. COLE YOUNGER I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were tr... COLE YOUNGER A little-known fact: Next to nothing is impossible. Actually, nothing itself is impossible. Nothing ... DANIEL YOUNGER It would take a good amount of work, a considerable amount of patience, and an unfathomable amount o... DANIEL YOUNGER All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, the... PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and
therefore the Divers under the water doe ... PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were
consisting of feathers, which they will... PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no
more and the same plaine and simple: ... PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best
fertilizer.
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or ver... 
There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy... 
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or... 
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you... 
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful. 
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you k... 
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no dee... 
Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to wri... 
To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not t... 
I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t... 
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... 
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to ... 
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul... 
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse... 
Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a w... 
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ... 
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a p... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move bey... 
With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're tr... 
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're... 
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... 
Darling,
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intel... 
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. 
I know how to write fiction well. 
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're dec... 
It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through t... 
Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi... 
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. 
We know nothing about motivation. All we can of is write books about it. 
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. 
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about som... 
You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long.
You yourself write nothing; your at... 
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then t... 
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your think... 
It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right t... 
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ... 
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... 
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me... 
We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about? 
If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. Th... 
If you said good-bye to me tonight,There would still be music left to write. 
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her... 
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know... 
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that... 
But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin... 
Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know 
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate sk... 
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. 
The happier the moment the shorter. 
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengt... 
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int... 
All art is but imitation of nature. 
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha... 
I'm the most boring person to talk to. 
Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order. 
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ... 
Who is wise? One who learns from all. 
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds. 
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This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj... 
When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...