Best Styx Quotes

#1. Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.

Geoff Downes

#2. One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Chuck Klosterman

#4. Can you please tell me who you people are?"
"Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We've all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus."
~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx

David Revilla

#5. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

Eula Biss

#6. I have only ever liked one boy in my life. I have only wanted one man to have as my own. I have only ever had one dream since I was eight. Styx, the dream is you. You stole my heart fifteen yes ago and you still haven't given it back.

Tillie Cole

#7. Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

Delmore Schwartz

#8. I will get back to you, Calypso," he muttered. "I promised on the River Styx.

Rick Riordan

#9. World War II, you know, that was basically a fight between the sons of Zeus and Poseidon on one side, and the sons of Hades on the other. The winning side, Zeus and Poseidon, made Hades swear an oath with them: no more affairs with mortal women. They all swore on the River Styx.' Thunder boomed.

Rick Riordan

#10. I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

Louise Post

#11. I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.

Rick Riordan

#12. We were always fated to be together. He is my everything. He is my entire world...
...Styx is my salvation.

Tillie Cole

#13. I swear it by the River Styx,

Josephine Angelini

#14. And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

James Young

#15. You have light within you, Styx, and I feel it shining through like the rays of the midday sun. It is beautiful. You are a good man.

Tillie Cole

#16. Daddy's gonna put you on a sailboat across the River Styx." "Did you just use Greek mythology to talk trash?

John Green

#17. Then that fuckin' nose twitched again. And I sank back into my woman... a pair of wolf eyes bringing me home.

Tillie Cole

#18. Styx has become the mullet of bands.

Steve Almond

#19. One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

Christopher Buckley

#20. For the first time in my life, I feel wanted... like I finally belong. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be than here with you. You do not cage me, Styx. You make me soar.

Tillie Cole

#21. She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.

Janette Rallison

#22. But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

James Young

#23. Son of Poseidon? East asked. I nodded. Took a dip in the Styx? Hudson asked. Yep. They made digusted sounds. Well that's perfect East said. Now how do we kille him?

Rick Riordan

#24. I had lost all perspective; I was wandering in a desperate purgatory (with a gray man in a gray boat in a gray river: an apathetic Charon dawdling upon a passionless phlegmatic River Styx ... and a petulant Christ child bawling on the train ... ).

Sylvia Plath

#25. So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

#26. He wanted to tell her that if it were simply a matter of crossing the river Styx and trading places with Beau, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.

Pamela Clare

#27. We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.

Todd Farmer

#28. I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx.

Rick Riordan

#29. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.

Rick Riordan

#30. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Ian Weir