Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.Seneca the Younger
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong -
Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
Lapo Elkann
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
Naomi Watts -
At the very beginning of my career, when I opened my business in Italy, I was also a ranked tennis player. I had won many tournaments. To be an athlete was my first choice. Second choice: designer. However! There was more money in being a designer at that time.
Oleg Cassini -
You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
Randy Pausch -
Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
Eckhart Tolle
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I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
Jessica Biel -
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
Dorothy Fields -
I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.
Lenny Abrahamson -
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
Keith Urban -
I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.
Liz Vassey -
Art is recuperation
R. S. Thomas
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
H. G. Wells -
It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.
Jason Mraz -
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
H. L. Mencken -
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
Seneca the Younger