Medusa Quotes

23 Medusa quotes by 19 unique authors

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
I've been prepping for my role as Medusa. — Joaquin Phoenix
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. — Archibald MacLeish
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
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
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
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nevermind dwelling in the past, your listening to the future. Them flows get tighter, them hoes get looser. Then they wanna seduce you like medusa… — J. Cole
My garments shouldn't be here, I'm somewhere near the future. As far as being hard, I feel I'm somewhere near Medusa and everywhere I be… — Wale
Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm 'Luminati. This is a gated community, please get the fuck off the property. — Drake

Who Wrote These Medusa Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 23 Medusa Quotes as follows: