Penelope The Odyssey From The Odyssey Quotes

#1. I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.

Bernard Hopkins

#2. The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Humble Hearts have humble desires.

George Herbert

#4. Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Ken Follett

#5. Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Gorgias

#6. Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

#7. In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

Carolyn R. Dimmick

#8. Don't just do something. Stand there. - Rochelle Myer

David Allen

#9. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

Asa Larsson

#10. He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

John Prescott

#11. I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.

Julie Adams

#12. Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#14. I was hopelessly drawn to him like a moth to a flame ... I had a feeling I would get burned by Carter Morgan, but I didn't care.

Adriane Leigh

#15. Sod off! Psych 101. There are five stages of grief and I'm owning that shit. They ARE my bitches.

Christine Zolendz

#16. Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Marilyn Vos Savant