Sophocles Quotes

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Hot

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Count

• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
  • Living
  • Rejection

• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Me
  • Body
  • Films

• We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Public
  • Count

• Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Still
  • Count
  • Overconfident

• Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Character
  • Respect

• It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Writing
  • Church

• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Quality

• It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he's not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

  

  David Shields
  • Why

• I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Women
  • She
  • Age

• In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Family
  • Character
  • Friends

• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Time
  • History
  • Political

• The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Great

• When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Books
  • Library
  • Count

• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

  

  Euripides
  • Dies
  • Buried
  • Good Men

• I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Perfectionist

• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Dog
  • Horse
  • Talents

• Well I think the problem is, is that...what people don't realize is they're gonna get away from the people that they're marketing with now. They're tryna change everything about the format of the NBA, the imaging and everything. This is more about control you know what I'm saying? This has nothing to do with clothing. This is a control issue.

  

  Bun B
  • People
  • Problem
  • NBA

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

  

  Sophocles
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