Sappho Quotes

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Down
  • Phone
  • Mechanic

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Walk
  • No Regrets

• I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Hurt

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Know
  • End
  • Hurts

• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Revolution
  • Create
  • Tool

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Band
  • Star
  • Key

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Water

• Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Why
  • Competition
  • Moon

• I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

  

  George Ryan
  • Sleep
  • Decision
  • Made

• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Journalism

• The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

  

  Sappho
  • Sleep
  • Moon
  • Midnight