Ilium Quotes

#1. Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. Not slaves," said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. "Citizens, employed by government. They have same rights as other citizens - free speech, freedom of worship, the right to vote. Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better.

Anonymous

#3. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Christopher Marlowe

#4. Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Eric Idle

#5. Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

Haruki Murakami

#6. If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.

Alex Steffen

#7. In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.

Ken Robinson

#8. No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define
what is a bird.

Emma Lazarus

#9. Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?
I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.

Dan Simmons

#10. Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

Marcia Whicker

#11. You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

William J. Bernstein

#12. Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years.

Tom Brevoort

#13. My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

Nicos Anastasiades

#14. I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

Tanya Tucker

#15. Pause and ponder when you get to a certain point in the journey of life. Know your destination and mind the true destiny you shall form upon reaching your final destination.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

Rajneesh