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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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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.'
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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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.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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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.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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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.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
