“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
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.” — Nina Mouawad Copy Share Image
“At the critical moment it is the rare few who can do what needs to be done. -Icarus” — Anonymous 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
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it — Seth Godin 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
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs… — Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
“He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton,… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a tragic kind of joke. You really can't keep a man down - good but often otherwise - because history's… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“This emotion called love. It is wrapped up in time, measured by years. The more I see of humans the more complicated… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey 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
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng 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
“To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph" Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at… — Anne Sexton 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
“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
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
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — Seth 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
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey 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
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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