#ore

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#face #face value #get #go #life

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#fit #i #me #more #my own

It is a weird feeling to have people go, "Hey Chris" like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#chris #cool #experiences #feeling #go

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#air #city #come #dream #feel

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#friends #get #interested #make #months

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ↗

— Herman Melville

#dying #evermore #fellows #indulged #little

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

#either #grief #hands #idleness #man

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common #common sense #decency #everything #favor

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#crazy #device #ignorant #making #more