Oedipus The Rex Quotes

#1. If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

Ruth Marcus

#2. Closer,
it's all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

Sophocles

#3. Time alone can bring the just man to light - the criminal you can spot in just one short day.

Sophocles

#4. The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.

Venita VanCaspel

#5. Allah loves His creation. That's why He rewards so greatly for serving them.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

Haruki Murakami

#7. The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Arthur Miller

#8. Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

#10. I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

Billy Joel

#11. Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Veronica Roth

#12. Your ego is gushing all over me and getting my favorite shoes dirty.

Nicole Williams

#13. Weep not, everything must have its day.

Sophocles

#14. I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Daniel Craig

#15. The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

Greg Rucka

#16. It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Chapman Cohen

#17. Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.

Sophocles

#18. Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Sophocles

#19. How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth.

Sophocles

#20. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

#21. When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Chris Tucker

#22. Tired of all who come with words, words but no language
I went to the snow-covered island.
The wild does not have words.
The unwritten pages spread themselves out in all directions!
I come across the marks of roe-deer's hooves in the snow.
Language, but no words.

Tomas Transtromer

#23. I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

Robert Orben

#24. Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Sophocles

#25. Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoying, because you're like, 'Come on, it's bedtime!' But try it: You'll fill up before you know it, because it takes 20 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is full.

Alison Sweeney