Quotes About Ithaka

#1. Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.

Maggie Shipstead

#2. I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

Kym Whitley

#3. When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#4. Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#5. When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#6. When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

Cicely Tyson

#7. Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

David Robinson

#8. Astute observers of corporate balance sheets are often the first to see business deterioration

Benjamin Graham

#9. Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

Rita Dove

#10. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

Alison Moyet

#12. Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

Byron Katie