Sophocles Quotes
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
Quotes to Explore
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.
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What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.
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I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
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I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.
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The weight really started falling off, and I could see my muscles. It was awesome.
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One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
