"Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]"

-- Ovid

#Departed Quotes #No Friends Quotes #Way Quotes

“Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.”
“My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.”
“I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.”
“Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.”
“I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.”
“Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.”
“I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.”

Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
“I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.”

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