Epictetus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
-
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
-
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
-
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
-
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
-
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
-
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
-
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
-
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
-
Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
-
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
-
From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.
-
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
-
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
-
Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
-
Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
-
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
