Olympus Quotes
50 quotes by 27 authors
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
— Bertrand Russell
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
— Anne Rice
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital,…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
— Wayne Thiebaud
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Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.
— Woody Allen
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My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs for two potential…
— Patrick Kelly
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
— Desmond Tutu
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
— John Dryden
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A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
— William Winwood Reade
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them…
— Homer
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
— Edna Ferber
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A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be…
— Robert Bateman
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One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like…
— John C. Reilly
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I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset…
— James Wolcott
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I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste.…
— Rick Riordan
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Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leading the Cyclopes, you are appointed a general…
— Rick Riordan
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But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Olympus Quotes
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