Euripides Quotes

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

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• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Great
  • Past
  • Star

• In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Society
  • Science

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Unique
  • Yourself

• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Children
  • Book
  • Parents

• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Personality

• I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Die

• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Mortals
  • Fed

• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

  

  Faizon Love
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• Nay, number (itself) in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for (as Virgil saith) it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Courage
  • Wolf

• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Play

• Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

  

  Euripides
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mortals