Phaeton Quotes

#1. Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

Cees Nooteboom

#2. While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Martial

#3. Oh, my. The Marques of Jonesborough requests that I join him for a ride in his phaeton this afternoon; only he fears my beauty will blind his horses." The end of the sentence was swallowed by Alex's own disbelieving giggle. "Surely he can't think I would take that seriously.

Sarah MacLean

#4. What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

Hortense Calisher

#5. I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature

George Harrison

#6. This is what you got when you let people in. They started to think they knew you when they didn't know shit.

Samantha Young

#7. My practical intelligence said no, but my heart said yes.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her.

Lindsay Lohan

#9. I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

John Mayer

#10. My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.

Derrick Rose