Panathenaic Quotes

#1. I think I like 'em better like that ... divinely dull ... just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Edith Wharton

#2. Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might
Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.

Edna Jaques

#3. A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Thornton Wilder

#4. If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

#5. For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Enemies are an indication of character.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#7. No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Aphra Behn

#8. On the last day, the bad days seem so difficult to recall.

John Green

#9. A great man is one sentence.

Clare Boothe Luce

#10. All of my high school issues are resolved!

Oscar Isaac