Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
-
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
-
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
-
I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
-
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
-
I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
-
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
-
I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
-
In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
-
But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
-
I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
-
I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
-
Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
-
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
-
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
-
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
-
One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
-
No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
-
At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
-
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.
-
'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
-
Thinking about Amazon's restraints - the company has never tried to introduce a social network or an email service, for example - you can understand something about the future Amazon seems to envision: A time when no screen is needed at all, just your voice.
-
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
-
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
