Launched A Thousand Ships 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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Christopher Marlowe

#6. If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Deborah Roberts

#7. An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

Stephen Covey

#8. More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

Irwin Winkler

#9. If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Robert B. Parker

#10. There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It

Chuck Klosterman

#11. What's the point in hating something if you aren't proactive?

Kiersten White

#12. If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

Pablo Picasso

#13. The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Richard Rohr

#14. I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Khloe Kardashian