Athene Quotes

#1. You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

#2. Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

T.H. White

#3. Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.

Hilda Doolittle

#4. [I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining.

Donna Tartt

#5. Was I not mad, after all, for journeying to this place, of my own free will? "And all for what? Original lust? Die before trying as a matter of trust, I see with staked hands a man before us, who fixes, and features and burrows a bribe, like a Pallas Athene, a winter-crossed bride.

Benjamin Robert Carrico

#6. Does this public display of affection with my daughter on my front porch mean I'm stuck with you now?" he asks, opening the screen door for Harper.
I'm not sure if I should laugh, so I hold back. "I'm afraid so.

Trish Doller

#7. A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Mark Twain

#8. I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.

Angelique Kidjo

#9. It was an allegorical, metaphorical, rhetorical question.

Billy Phillips

#10. You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#11. I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Siobhan Fahey