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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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!

  

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• 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.

  

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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.'

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Air
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• Cowboys that's American, it means boys who milk the cow - call them 'Stockmen'.

  

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  • Cow

• One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.

  

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  • Milk

• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

  

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  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.

  

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

  

  Sophocles
  • Crying
  • Milk
  • Recalled