Launched A Thousand Quotes

#1. [ ... ]Since then it's been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face."
"The Face?" Lucas asked.
"That Launched a Thousand Ships," Daphne said, repeating the title automatically. "It's our curse.

Josephine Angelini

#2. Darcy staring handsomely out from the shelves. Well, Colin Firth, really. 'The face that launched a thousand bookmarks,

Victoria Connelly

#3. And as if the wink was't crazy enough, now he had the gall to flash that smile of his. It deepened the dimple in his left cheek, the one she'd always thought was sweet enough to launch a thousand lady boners - it'd certainly launched a thousand of her.

Julie Ann Walker

#4. God, he was so beautiful. It was the tragic kind of beauty too, the kind you knew was doomed from the start. A face that launched a thousand ships and dug a million graves.

Andrea Speed

#5. What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships.

Edmund White

#6. 'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy.

David Ignatius

#7. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.

Terry Pratchett

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

Christopher Marlowe

#9. The cake that launched a thousand hips

Steph Bennion

#10. I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

John Ratzenberger

#11. Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#12. One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Democritus

#13. The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.

David Attenborough

#14. Why think about tomorrow today, when you don't even know if there will be a tomorrow, or if there is, if you'll be there tomorrow?

Art Hochberg

#15. The two greatest mysteries in all of nature are the mind and the universe.

Michio Kaku

#16. Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

Michael Gartner

#17. When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

Lauren Willig

#19. I want this beast to savage me, to hurt me while taking me to the apex of pleasure.

Nina G. Jones

#20. Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

Stuart Aken

#21. Stab, don't slash! It takes two inches of steel to kill.

Marc Alan Edelheit

#22. Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.

Paul Auster