"So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck……" — Barry S. Strauss
"So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men."
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19 Quotes by Barry S. Strauss
Barry S. Strauss has 19 quotes on this site.
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what…
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever…
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Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise,…
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury…
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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only…
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies…
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost…
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores…
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I…
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The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how…
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More Brine Quotes
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Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away…
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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret…
— Patricia Hampl
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When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and…
— William Shakespeare
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Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine,…
— Hartley Coleridge
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife,…
— Homer
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized…
— Brendan I. Koerner
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If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat…
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