Sophocles Quotes
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
Quotes to Explore
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
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I'm not a nostalgic person: I never look back; I always forget.
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My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
