Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Quotes to Explore
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
-
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
-
I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
-
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
-
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
-
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
-
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
-
It takes people a while to trust you.
-
I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
-
So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
-
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
-
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
-
It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
-
Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
-
I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
-
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
-
The border is, if not wide open, then certainly open enough to get what the demand requires inside of the country. Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States.
-
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
-
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
