Memnon's Quotes

#1. Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

John Keble

#2. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.

Kristin Hannah

#4. Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

Eric Fischl

#5. It is universally understood that, as if it were nothing more substantial than vapor floating in the sky, every emotion of a woman is bound to end in a shower.

Joseph Conrad

#6. The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!

Gary Larson

#7. Some people don't like a murder for breakfast. It's just not their thing.

Cameron Jace

#8. I carry their beauty inside the very soul of my being. Dark with shades of grey. White with storm clouds in the distance. Because of dad and mom, I am not afraid to dream of dark victories and black beauty. I'm not afraid to be in love with the night

Diane Keaton

#9. A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

Vanilla Ice

#10. I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

Charles Bukowski

#11. And remember: speak least if you would be most often heard.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

C.S. Lewis

#13. But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

Abbi Glines

#14. You have to have a strong sense of your values and a strong sense of who you are, because there are a lot of events and a lot of people who will pull you in this direction or that direction.

Condoleezza Rice

#15. The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. I don't crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

Anton Corbijn

#17. Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support.

Rebecca MacKinnon