#natura

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ↗

— Jones Very

#almost #existence #instinctively #labors #life

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ↗

— Paul Coffey

#better #get #good #hard #natural

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#answering #asking #bewilderment #chief #clever

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else. ↗

— Toni Collette

#becoming #being #challenge #else #fantastically

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. ↗

— John Coltrane

#communion #feel #get #laws #musician

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun. ↗

— Didi Conn

#around #book #could #did #drawing

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#deny #face #family #heritage #more