Sophocles Quotes

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
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  • Process

• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • You
  • Opinion
  • Judgment

• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Painful

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Imagination
  • Person
  • Gun

• I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Guess
  • Tomboy
  • Resourceful

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Spring

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Better
  • Numbers

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • College
  • Always
  • Acting

• He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Interest
  • Own
  • Muslim

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Character
  • Freedom
  • Comedy

• I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Right

• Don't judge my problems when you don't know my purpose. I'm only struggling now so I can pull you through later.

  

  Bishop Noel Jones
  • Purpose
  • Judge
  • Problems

• I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

  

  Sophocles
  • Judge
  • Right
  • Dreadful