Medusa Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
— Edward Abbey
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I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.
— Joaquin Phoenix
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Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
— Archibald MacLeish
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You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes…
— Theda Bara
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Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step…
— John Updike
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Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
— Aldous Huxley
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The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her…
— Ray Harryhausen
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which…
— R. D. Laing
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Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the…
— Helene Cixous
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just…
— Paul Celan
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You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
— Helene Cixous
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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight…
— Thomas Ligotti
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about…
— Rick Riordan
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Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can turn…
— Rick Riordan
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have…
— Joseph Campbell
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Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Medusa Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Medusa Quotes as follows: