Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.
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Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
