Nemo Quotes - Page 2

• No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
  [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Feet

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

  Karl Pilkington

  Glasses, London, Pebbles

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Dvds, Classic, Modern

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Trying, Baffled

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• Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
  Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
  Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Promise, Another Day

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• I think being on Weeds, in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.

  Alexander Gould

  Weed, Thinking, Think Of Me

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• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
  [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
  Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
  Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

  Horace

  Doe, Different, Ratios

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Guilt, Purpose

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• No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
  [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspiration, Greatness, Men

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• No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
  [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

  Thomas a Kempis

  Death, Dying, Papa

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• No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
  [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Change, Men, Mind

  "Epistolæ ad Atticus", XVI. 7. 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96,

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• When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.

  Francoise Mouly

  Art, Reading, Listening

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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