Top 67 Quotes About Hermes
#1. Hermes?" I stammered. "Hello, Percy. Didn't recognize me without my jogging clothes?" "Uh ... " I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.
Rick Riordan
#3. When you read this you may already have met Hermes. In case you haven't, I'll add that he is a dog. But don't worry. he is very good-tempered - and moreover, a good deal more intelligent than a lot of people. In any event he never tries to give the impression of being cleverer than he is.
Jostein Gaarder
#4. HERNIAS ARE US Wait ... sorry. I'm dyslexic. I squinted and decided it probably read: HERMES EXPRESS
Rick Riordan
#5. Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.
Molly Ringle
#6. I gotta say" - Apollo broke the silence - "these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "Heroes win laurels - "
Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry.
Rick Riordan
#7. I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus
#8. What's the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.
Rick Riordan
#9. Hermes?" Apollo hissed - actually hissed like an angry lion. "That little, punk-ass bitch.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#10. Are you in pain?"
I rolled my eyes. Good news was that Apollo must've had a little talk with Hermes. "No, but you're a pain in my ass. Does that count?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#11. Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.
Nicolas Cage
#12. HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors to the past where we have an opportunity to explore the deeper meanings, myths and symbols of our art.
Jeff McBride
#13. Hekate smacked the mirror down. "I'd never fancy you," she retorted to Hermes. "And if you ever try to kiss me, I'll
I'll keep a snake hidden in my clothes and make it bite you. On the lips. And on both ears."
"See, your threats are still age twelve," Hermes said. "I'll help you work on that.
Molly Ringle
#14. Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.
Allen Tate
#15. [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day
to you, thief of fire, I speak.
Aeschylus
#16. I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
Walt Whitman
#17. Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting
" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you ... did you bathe in the River Styx?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Percy! Did you or not?"
"Um ... maybe a little.
Rick Riordan
#18. Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.
Hilda Doolittle
#19. Pretty dark in there, says Ash. Did you git lost? I feel a hot flush crawl up my neck. Lucky for me, Hermes trots over an I busy myself strokin his neck. It uh ... took us longer than we thought to put out the fire, says Jack.
Moira Young
#20. All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It's really big and cost a lot so NASA only built one.
Andy Weir
#21. I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
Bernard Arnault
#22. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
Thomas Browne
#23. Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Ovid
#24. Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.
Rick Riordan
#25. What? Was that a laugh? (Delphine)
No. (Jericho)
Yes, it was. I heard it. Holy cow, call Hermes to spread the news. I think I just started the end of the world ... it has to be a sign of the apocalypse. (Delphine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#26. Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.
Rick Riordan
#27. But at last I came to understand that I was making it too complicated. For you, this is no mingling at all; for you the Book of Revelation, the ramblings of Hermes Trismegistus, and Principia Mathematica are all signatures torn from the same immense Book.
Neal Stephenson
#28. Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
Kanye West
#29. I hope I packed well for you," Hermes said. "I do have some experience with travel.
Rick Riordan
#30. She's touching me, George complained as he and Martha slithered around the pole.
'She's always touching you,' Hermes said. 'You are intertwined. And if you don't stop that, you'll get knotted again!
Rick Riordan
#31. After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
Hamish Bowles
#32. I like when she [Martha Stewart] demonstrates how to transport a potted plant while wearing Hermes pants and uses enough packing material to move a whole house. But we're just moving one plant. Really you just put the plant in a truck and go.
Alexis Stewart
#33. I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes.
Rick Riordan
#34. The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.
Kohta Hirano
#35. Got my first e-mail from Hermes today. NASA's been limiting direct contact. I guess they're afraid I'll say something like "You abandoned me on Mars, you assholes!
Andy Weir
#36. Even the gods were impressed. They descended from Olympus and loaded Hercules down with so much swag, it got embarrassing. Hermes
Rick Riordan
#37. Hermes and I sat in the back of the delivery truck on a couple of boxes labeled TOXIC SERPENTS. THIS END UP. Maybe that wasn't the best place to sit, but it was better than some of his other deliveries, which were labeled EXPLOSIVES, DO NOT SIT ON, and DRAKON EGGS, DO NOT STORE NEAR EXPLOSIVES.
Rick Riordan
#38. If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.
James Hillman
#39. We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.
Rick Riordan
#40. When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
William Shakespeare
#41. Hello, Hermes! Command sequence: Daedalus Twenty-three. Kill Flying Pigs! Begin Activation!" Immediately the statue moved
Rick Riordan
#42. The moral?" Hermes asked. "Goodness, you act like it's a fable. It's a true story. Does truth have a moral?
Rick Riordan
#43. You know the saying, don't kill the messenger? Hold that thought really, really close to your hearts. (Hermes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. This coyote is a wily dog born
from ancient trickster bones,
Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore
Toby Barlow
#45. They drove towards the city and Dan handed Lyssa a loose Hermes scarf.
'Yours?' she teased.
'Mum's,' he answered as Lyssa tied it over her eyes. 'You look very sexy like that.'
'And you sound really creepy right now,' Lyssa said, laughing.
Kate Forster
#46. I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore.
Kelly Rutherford
#47. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
Will Hermes
#48. The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.
Hermes Trismegistus
#49. If you don't care about anybody- no problem.The big problem is only when you do care.
Patricia Hermes
#50. For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown
Hermes Trismegistus
#51. Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
Georg Hermes
#53. Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
Georg Hermes
#54. From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.
Georg Hermes
#55. Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.
Hermes Trismegistus
#56. I had four brothers, no sisters, and shared a tiny bedroom with my maiden aunt for the first seventeen years of my life. I had no choice but to write.
Margaret Hermes
#57. The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth.
Will Hermes
#58. Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.
Will Hermes
#59. A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.
Georg Hermes
#60. When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
Will Hermes
#61. That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.
Hermes Trismegistus
#62. What's the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.
Will Hermes
#63. My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.
Hermes Trismegistus
#65. O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!
Hermes Trismegistus
#66. The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
Georg Hermes
#67. Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.
Georg Hermes
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