Sophocles Quotes

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 496 BC - 406 BC

Topics

SpeechOne ThingMuchThingAnother

Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

Jim Inhofe

DriveYouFindNeedOklahomaSome

There is no risk-free path for monetary policy.

Jerome Powell

PathPolicyMonetaryMonetary Policy

The problem with cap-and-trade and programs such as carbon capture and storage is that they all assume that business as usual can continue. The financial meltdown and peak oil has pretty much demonstrated that business as usual's not going to work.

Andrew Nikiforuk

WorkBusinessFinancialProblemOil

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Michael Caine

BestResearchDrunkActorYears

Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'

John Waters

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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

Stuart Symington

ChildArmyDoneAir ForceNavyMess

Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

Mary Tyler Moore

ResponsibilityPeopleGrowReachUp

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

Michael Palmer

CharacterYouFindLettersDeadHe

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.

Mitt Romney

DeathPromisesPerformanceLooking

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

Jason Bateman

FutureMeDoingDramaNothingWould

We've mellowed out, man.

Debbi Peterson

ManOut

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Bono

YourselfPotentialFriendsViolence

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