Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
He who has two languages has two souls.
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy. ]
I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it's to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us life.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
The director, Moisés Kaufman, just received the national medal of the arts from President [Barack] Obama. He wrote and directed The Laramie Project and he has directed several Pulitzer prize-winning plays. He's a pretty profound director in the theater.