Oksenberg Jorge Quotes & Sayings

In her adult life Cleopatra would have met few people she considered her equal. To the Romans she was a stubborn, supreme exception to every rule. She remains largely incomparable: She had plenty of predecessors, few successors. With her, the age of empresses essentially came to an end. In two thousand years only one or two other women could be said to have wielded unrestricted authority over so vast a realm. Cleopatra remains nearly alone at the all-male table, in possession of a hand both flush and flawed. She got a very good deal right, and one crucial thing wrong. — Stacy Schiff

Hatred is like murder. It eats away at your soul until you wish you had never begun it in the first place, but by then it is too late. You've become corrupted by it. In the end, you've only murdered yourself. Trust me, I know. — H.G. Warrender

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising. — John Hurt

Sirius stabbed moodily at a potato — J.K. Rowling

I took the right sow by the ear. — Robert Walpole