Jocasta Quotes

#1. Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.

David Markson

#2. JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.

Sophocles

#3. All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

Martha Graham

#4. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Ian Frazier

#5. Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

William C. Brown

#6. 'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.

Chris Pine

#7. When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.

Rita Zahara

#8. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

A.A. Milne

#9. When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

Maelle Gavet

#10. 'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

Brandon Stanton

#11. We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

Tony Abbott

#12. What I like best is to notice something I never noticed before.

Marty Rubin

#13. There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme of things. But it was really a privilege to get to do it.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#14. What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

Michael Kroger

#16. I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante