#steven

The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage ↗

— Xenophon

#art

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#inspiration #intelligence #knowledge #malazan #malazan-book-of-the-fallen

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#acting #entire #entire life #few #george

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#always #bill #cartoonist #comedians #comedic

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#cat #cat stevens #collection #dad #everyone

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. ↗

— Larry Niven

#art form #barnes #form #life #like

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. ↗

— Evan Parker

#conception #document #formed #fully #great

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#i #movies #scary #scary movies #spielberg

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#cat #cat stevens #going #make #money

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#aside #concern #ever #gentle #governor