“I am on warp-speed headed directly for the sun; I am Icarus." (opening line of 'Girl on a Bar Stool', new /… — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn, Icarus to the sun. I've been burned already, and yet here I am again.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?” — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work… — Seth Copy Share Image
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — Seth Copy Share Image
“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned.… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“He would keep what he would always believe had to be a false memory of her falling like a booted Icarus out… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Icarus! It’s not as if I have forgotten all names. I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Most often, couples who get together after months or years of online infatuation enact a twenty-first-century version of Icarus flying too close… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Before there was even an official naming of the 3DS, or before it was even decided that there would be 3-D capabilities,… — Masahiro Sakurai Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level. The story of Icarus… — Marcus Wohlsen Copy Share Image
“4. The whole Icarus-flying-too-near-the-sun-and-plummeting-out-of-the-sky thing? That's real. Same with the Sirens who lure you to death with their irresistible song, and the… — Todd Hanson Copy Share Image
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper that propels a civilization to greatness.… — Todd Bowden Apt Pupil Copy Share Image
“Do I, then, belong to the heavens? Why, if not so, should the heavens Fix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.” — Nina Mouawad Copy Share Image
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“This (Icarus Risen) is the dream of a kid who never experienced war, and the path of a man who has.” — Alex Alexander Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
“don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep… — Marcella Pixley Copy Share Image
