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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Gratitude

• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• My baby ohhhCome take control, just grab a holdOf my body and mind; soon we'll be making itHoney, oh we're feeling fineYou're my medicine. Open up and let me in.Darling, you're so great;I can't wait for you to operate.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Envy

• I'm working my way toward divinity.

  

  Bette Midler

• I take my title from the name the Jews have traditionally given the Roman Empire. You may expect to meet all manner of wickedness in what follows - pork-eating, lechery, adultery, bigamy, sodomy, bestiality, the most ingenious varieties of cruelty, assassination, the worship of false gods and the sin of being uncircumcised.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • May

• If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Offended

• People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Modern
  • Evolution

• I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

  

  Blake Lively
  • Great

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

  

  Sappho
  • Sleep
  • Moon
  • Midnight