#rio

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ↗

— Heraclitus

#child #himself #man #most #nearly

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ↗

— Herodotus

#always #become #being #bit #fun

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

#awards #bring #colleagues #curious #even

Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#handsome #love #phantom-of-the-opera #ugly #love

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#i #serious #very #waste

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#eyes #result #sphinx #truth #truths

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#dicaprio #leonardo #leonardo dicaprio #serious #very

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#efficient #efficient way #efficiently #energy #environmental

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#back #compromise #confronted #constituencies #distinct

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#been #convince #had #i #over