Sophocles Quotes

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Child

• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Tall

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• Your man Flavor Flav is living!

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Man
  • Living
  • Flavor

• As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Man
  • Always
  • Same

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Better
  • More

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you?... The devil may try to use the hurts of life, and sometimes our own mistakes - to make you feel it is impossible that Jesus really loves you, is really cleaving to you. This is a danger for all of us. And so sad, because it is completely the opposite of what Jesus is really wanting, waiting to tell you. Not only that He loves you, but even more - He longs for you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Hurt

• I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Shows
  • Fan

• I'm an only child, and we're a close family.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Child
  • Close

• A man growing old becomes a child again.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Child
  • Growing Old