Sophocles Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
Warren Farrell -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain -
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain -
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain -
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain -
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain -
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain -
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain -
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
Mark Twain -
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
Mark Twain -
We're able to tell the truth in a way that you can't tell with real people. I think because it's animated, you um, you have enough of a barrier to say things that people might find offensive or be sort of appalled, or the censors would go 'no way', you know, because it's animated.
Yeardley Smith -
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Jane Austen -
What you can't enforce, do not command.
Sophocles