Aristophanes Quotes
Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)Aristophanes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus -
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler -
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan -
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent -
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Harry Browne -
Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
Caitlin Doughty -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
Harbhajan Singh -
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
Samantha Barks -
I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
O. J. Simpson
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary Oldman -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver -
It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
Katee Sackhoff -
Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
Kate Middleton -
Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru -
I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
Macy Gray
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If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.
George Papandreou -
Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
Wendell Berry -
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
Alison Louise Kennedy -
It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
Nelson Mandela -
Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
Aristophanes