Sophocles Quotes

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Me

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

  

  Oliver North
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Divided

• I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Learning
  • Body
  • Medicine

• Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Day

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity