Odysseus Weaknesses Quotes

#1. It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

#2. Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

#3. He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she'd all but had herself vaccinated against it.

Linda Lael Miller

#5. I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. [P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

Norman Spinrad

#7. All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Naveen Jain

#8. In 1953, at the beginning of the Eisenhower era and the glory years of the auto industry, Hudson's had done $153 million in retail sales; in 1981 the downtown Hudson's had done only $44 million - a figure, if adjusted for inflation, about 6 percent of the 1953 total.

David Halberstam

#9. It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Rick Riordan

#10. Her head felt like elephants were doing the merengue on her cerebellum.

Susan Fanetti

#11. Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

Bill Buxton

#12. We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.

Shaun Alexander

#13. I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

David Mitchell