Sophocles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
-
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
-
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
-
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
-
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
-
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
-
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
-
The future is much like the present, only longer.
-
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
-
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
-
It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
-
I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
-
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
-
Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
-
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
-
I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
-
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
-
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
-
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
-
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
-
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
-
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
-
This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
-
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
