„If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.“
— Johann Sebastian Bach German late baroque era composer 1685 - 1750
„The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this and every country but his own.“
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„As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
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„Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.“
— Patricia Briggs, When Demons Walk
„I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
„A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.“
— Mary McCarthy American writer 1912 - 1989
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„Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.“
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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„For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.“
— Lucian ancient Greek writer 120
Sect. 39; vol. 2, pp. 128-9; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.
„We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
Context: I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
„Every woman should have a purse of her own.“
— Susan B. Anthony American women's rights activist 1820 - 1906
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„There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.“
— Stan Lee American comic book writer 1922
„He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.
He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
[dies slowly... ]“
— Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems
Poem "Muere lentamente" (Dying Slowly), wrongly attributed to Pablo Neruda. See "Fake Pablo Neruda Poem Spreads on Internet" http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=325275&CategoryId=14094 by Ana Mendoza, Latin American Herald Tribune (12 January 2009).