"Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work."

-- Pliny the Elder

#Land Quotes #Four Quotes #Messengers Quotes

“I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.”
“Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because Iâ€™m not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you.”
“You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.”
“Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.”
“The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.”
“What happened to goodbye?”
“People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.”
“A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.”

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