Sofocles Quotes

#1. Thought is energy.
Active thought is active energy;
concentrated thought is a concentrated energy.
Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

Charles F. Haanel

#2. I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

Tika Sumpter

#3. you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.

Lynne Truss

#4. I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Ray Bradbury

#5. It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body; for it is better to die than to live badly.

Epictetus

#6. Case fatality is defined as the proportion of patients with the disease who die, whereas mortality, a population-based measure, is defined as the proportion of all the at-risk people who die from the disease.

Marya Zilberberg

#7. She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

Mark Twain

#9. We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

Jennifer Egan

#10. Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#11. I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but it's not where my inclination is. I want to hide.

Tracy Letts

#12. We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We hope to distract them, keep them busy. Burial is a hope.

David Vann

#13. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)

George Orwell

#14. It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

Alberto Cairo