Sophocles Quotes

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

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• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

  

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• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

  

  Bam Margera
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• I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

  

  Odette Annable
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• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Know
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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Writing
  • Women
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• I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
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• You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Long
  • You
  • Milk

• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Good
  • Money
  • Kids

• 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Hero

• I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Different
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• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Storm

• When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

  

  Linda Grant
  • Powerful

• I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Live
  • Society

• The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Energy

• As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Ideas
  • Able
  • Appearance

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

  

  Sophocles
  • Crying
  • Milk
  • Recalled