Sophocles Quotes

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Air
  • Son

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Point

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • American
  • History

• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Being

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

  

  Kathy Acker

• For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Long
  • Faith
  • Quality

• Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Blessing

• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

  

  Sophocles
  • Death
  • Day By Day
  • Summoned