Daedalus Quote by Alison Bechdel

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the…

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,…

— W. H. Auden

think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he…

— Anne Sexton

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it…

— Margot Robbie

“I’ve done some exploring,” he said. “Thought you’d like to know, Daedalus got his punishment.” “You saw him?” Nico nodded. “Minos wanted to boil…

— Rick Riordan

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

— Amie Kaufman

“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse...…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a…

— Rick Riordan

“They had just docked in Greece and the passengers learned they would be quarantined and not be allowed to go ashore... "It was the…

— Mark Twain

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example.…

— Rick Riordan

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship…

— Daniel Defoe