Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Sophocles

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Sophocles

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

Sophocles

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

Shonda Rhimes

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Sylvester Stallone

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Sara Teasdale

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Samuel Ullman

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Talib Kweli

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

Talib Kweli

Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

Talib Kweli

There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

Talib Kweli

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

Talib Kweli

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

Tony Ross

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

Judith Wright

Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.

Judith Wright

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Kathy Acker

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Kathy Acker

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Kathy Acker

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Kay Redfield Jamison