Sophokles Antigone Quotes & Sayings

We manage what we monitor. — Gretchen Rubin

You know those people you could go years without seeing and when you finally get together it felt like no time had passed? Hold on to those people. — Brittainy C. Cherry

There's always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night's sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing. — Paul Russell

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that. — K'naan

I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar with a character, it can stifle the adrenalin from flowing through in the performance. — Julianna Margulies

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it. — Barbara Amiel

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing. — James Frey

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax. — Aeschylus

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. — Pete Rose

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent. — Mooji

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. — Kurt Vonnegut