Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
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Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.
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I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.
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No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner. But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
