An Oresteia Quotes & Sayings

The main work of haunting is done by the living — Judith Richardson

Having a job is like having a lobotomy. — Donald O'Donovan

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something. — Paul Feig

If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. — John Green

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it — Samuel Johnson

Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone. — Michael Bassey Johnson

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart. — Jerry Springer

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. — Thomas Woods

I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form. — Peter Milligan

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience. — Mo Willems

Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough. — Louie Giglio

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia — Aeschylus

I suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up. THROUGH — Lauren Oliver

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God. — George Steiner