Odyssey Athena Quotes

#1. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#2. She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars.

Dean Koontz

#3. Everything in moderation.

Giada De Laurentiis

#4. Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.

Marissa Mayer

#5. In the vision of Enoch, we find ourselves drawn to a God who prevents all the pain He can, assumes all the suffering He can, and weeps over the misery He can neither prevent nor assume.

Terryl L. Givens

#6. I'm still pulled over ... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

Lee Daniels

#7. When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

Jan Hellriegel

#8. The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky - as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. We can't be happy all the time. If we were we wouldn't be people, we would be game show hosts.

Laurence O'Keefe

#10. The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.

Hugo Chavez

#11. We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

Heidi Heitkamp

#12. I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#13. Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.

Scott Adams

#14. And then, after five minutes of silence, almost inaudibly, the old man sighed and said, more to himself than to Artyom: 'Lord, what a splendid world we ruined . . .

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#15. There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Louis D. Brandeis